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prove inefficient, after being haltered, a pack- 
horfe-man catches the tip end of one of his ears be- 
twixt his teeth and pinches it, when inftantly the 
furious drong creature, trembling, {lands perfectly 
Hill until he is loaded. 
Our caravan confiding of about twenty men and 
fixty horfes, we made a formidable appearance, 
having now little to apprehend from predatory 
bands or out-laws. 
This day’s journey was for the moil part over 
high gravelly ridges, and on the mod elevated hills, 
appeared emerging out of the earth, rocky cliffs of 
a dark reddifh brown colour ; their compofition 
feemed to be a coarfe, fandy, ferruginous concrete, 
but fo firmly cemented as to conftitute a perfedl hard 
Hone or rock, and appeared to be excavated or worn 
into cavities or furrows by the violence of the dafh- 
ing billows and rapid currents of the ocean, which 
heretofore probably wafhed them ; there were how*- 
ever Hrata or veins in thefe rocks, of a finer com- 
pofition and compadt confidence, and feemed pon- 
derous rich iron ore. A little depth below the 
fandy gravelly furface, lies a Hratum of very com- 
padt reddifh yellow clay and fragments of ochres 
The trees and fhrubs common on thefe gravelly 
ridges are as follows, Diofpyros, Quercus rubra, 
Q^nigra, Q^tindloria or great Black Oak, Q^alba, 
Q,i obata, pod White Oak, incana, foliis ova- 
]ibus integerrimis fubtus incanis, Pinus lutea, Pinus 
tte da, foliis geminatis et trinis, drobilo ovato bre- 
vi, cortice rimofo, Pinus paludris, foliis trinis lon- 
giffimis, drobilo elongata, Cornus Florida, Andro- 
meda arborea, Nyffa fylvatica, Juglans hiccory, 
Pi unus pad us, &c. Of herbaceae, Solidago, Eupa^ 
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