TRAVELS IN 
northern parts of thefe regions; which rrvuft be 
confidered as a moil favourable circumftance, by 
the people in countries where there is fo much 
banking and draining of the land, they being the 
moil definitive creatures to dykes. 
The roe-buck I have already mentioned. The 
bears are yet too numerous : they are a ftrong crea- 
ture, and prey on the fruits of the country, and will 
like wife devour young calves, fwine and fheep ; but 
I never could learn a well attefled inftance of their 
attacking mankind. They weigh from five hundred 
to fix hundred weight when full grown and fat : their 
flefh is greatly efleemed as food by the natives. 
The wild cat, felis cauda truncata, (lynx) is 
common enough : it is a fierce and bold little 
animal, preying on young pigs, fawns, turkeys, &:o. 
They are not half the fize of a common cur dog, 
are generally of a greyifh colour, and fomewhat 
tabbied ; their Tides bordering on the belly are va- 
ried with yellowifh brown fpots, and alniofl black' 
waving ftreaks, and brindled. I have been credibly 
informed that the wolves here are frequently feen 
pied, black and white, and of other mixed colours. 
They aremble in companies in the night time, 
howl and bark all together, efpecially in cold winter 
nights, which is terrifying to the wandering be^ 
wildered traveller. 
The foxes of Carolina and Florida are of the 
(mailer red fpecies : they bark in the night round 
about plantations, but do not bark twice in the 
lame place ; they move precipitately, and in a few 
minutes are heard on the eppofite fide of the plan- 
tation, or at a great diftance : it is laid that dogs 
are terrified at the noife, and cannot be perfuaded 
