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which was confpicuous through the clear water. 
The beds of rocks lay in horizontal thick ftrata or 
laminse, one over the other, where the fink holes ©r 
outlets are. Thefe rocks are perforated by perpen- 
dicular wells or tubes, four, five, and fix feet in 
diameter, exactly circular as the tube of a cannon 
or a walled well ; many of thefe are broken into one 
another, forming a great ragged orifice, appearing 
fluted by alternate jambs and femicircular perpendi- 
cular niches or excavations. 
Having fatisfied my curiofity in viewing this ex- 
traordinary place and very wonderful work of na- 
ture, we lepairecl to our refting place, where we 
found our horfes and mounted again; one of the 
company parted from us for the buck that we had 
idiot and left in the fork of the tree. My friend, the 
old trader, led the fhortefl way acrofs the plain, 
after repaying the wet morafs which had aimed 
fwum our horfes in the morning. At evening we 
arrived at the place of our detonation, where our 
affociates foon after rejoined us with fame Indians, 
who were merry agreeable guefts as long as they 
ftaid. They were in full drefs and painted; but 
before dark they mounted their horfes, which were 
of the true Siminole breed, fet fpurs to them, ut- 
tering all at. once a fhrill whoop, and went off for 
Cufcowilla. 
Though the horned cattle and horfes bred in 
thefe meadows are large, (leek, fprightly, and as 
fat as can be in general, yet they are fubjedt to mor- 
tal difeafes. I obferved feveral of them dreadfully 
mortified, their thighs and haunches ulcerated, raw, 
and bleeding, which, like a mortification or flow 
cancer, at length puts an end to their miferable 
exiftejice. The traders and Indians call this diff 
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