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Since, within the circle of my acquaintance, I 
am known to be an advocate or vindicator of the 
benevolent and peaceable difpofition of animal 
creation in general, not only towards mankind, 
whom they feem to venerate, but always towards one 
another, except where hunger or the rational and 
neceffary provocations of the fenfual appetite inter- 
fere, I fhall mention a few inftances, amongft 
many, which I have had an opportunity of remark- 
ing during my travels, particularly with regard to 
the animal I have been treating of. I fhall ftri&ly 
confine myfelf to fadts. 
When on the fea coaft of Georgia, I confented, 
with a few friends, to make a party of amufement 
at fifhing and fowling on Sapello, one of the fea 
coafl iflands. We accordingly defcended the Alata- 
maha, croffed the found and landed on the North 
end of the ifland, near the inlet, fixing our encamp- 
ment at a pleafant fituation, under the fhade of a 
grove of Live Oaks, and Laurels *, on the high banks 
of a creek which we afcended, winding through a 
fait marfh, which had its fource from a fwamp and 
favanna in the ifland : our fituation elevated and 
open, commanded a comprehenfive landfcape ; 
the great ocean, the foaming furf breaking on the 
fandy beach, the fnowy breakers on the bar, the 
endlefs chain of iflands, checkered found and high 
continent all appearing before us. The diverting 
toils of the day were not £ uitlefs, affording us op- 
portunities of furnifhing ourfelves plentifully with a 
variety of game, fifh and oyfters for our flipper. 
About two hundred yards from our camp was a 
Cool fpring, amidft a grove of the odoriferous My- 
f Magnolia grandiflora, called by the inhabitants the Laurel. 
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