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ther ; and if any one ftrolled from the reft at too 
great a diftance, the dog would fpring up, head 
the horfe, and bring him back to the company. The 
proprietor of thefe horfes is an Indian in Talaha- 
fochte, about ten miles diftance from this place, 
who, out of humour and experiment, trained his 
dog up from a puppy to this bufinefs : he follows 
his mailer’s horfes only, keeping them in a feparate 
company where they range ; and when he is hungry 
or wants to fee his mailer, in the evening he re- 
turns to town, but never Hays at home a night. 
The region we had journeyed through, fince we 
decamped this morning, is of a far better foil and 
quality than we had yet feen fince we left Alachua ; 
generally a dark grayifh, and fometimes brown or 
black loam, on a foundation of whitifh marl, chalk, 
and teftaceous limeftone rocks, and ridges of a loofe, 
coarfe, reddiih find, producing (lately Pines in the 
plains, and Live Oak, Mulberry, Magnolia, Palm, 
Zanthoxylon, &c. in the hommocks, and alfo in great 
plenty the perennial Indigo; it grows here five, fix, 
and feven feet high, and as thick together as if it 
had been planted and cultivated. The higher ridges 
of hills afford great quantities of a fpecies of 
iron ore, of that kind found in New-Jerfey and 
Pennfylvania, and there called bog ore \ it ap- 
pears on the furface of the ground in large detach- 
ed malfes and fmaller fragments ; it is ponderous, 
and feemed rich of that mod ufeful metal; but one 
property remarkable in thefe terrigenous Hones is, 
that they appear to be bliftered, fomewhat refem- 
bling cinders, or as if they had differed a violent 
action of fire. 
Le aving the charming favanna and fields of Capo- 
la, we palled feveral miles through de ight 1 plains 
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