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we punifhed his rage by ftriking him dead on 
the lpot : he had been highly irritated by 
an Indian dog that barked eagerly at him, but 
was cunning enough to keep out of his reach, 
or nimble enough to avoid the lhake when he 
lprung at him. We took notice that while 
provoked, he contracted the mufcles of his 
leaks lo as to appear very bright and fhining, 
but after the mortal ft-roke, his Iplendor be- 
came much diminilhed, this is likevvile the 
cale of many of our fnakes. 
The north fide of the Hill is not lo ftony as 
the fouth, but yet very poor. Thence we 
traveled 7 miles over feveral hollows, fwamps 
and fimall ridges, full of lerubby bulhes, 
and ftill poor and Honey to the laft great 
ridge, which is compoled chiefly of large 
gravel, as big as pidgeons or pullets eggs, and 
even the rocks leemed but heaps of the lame 
materials; the delcent on the north fide is very 
fteepand rocky, large craggy rocks are dilpofed 
on all fides, moft part of the way down, which 
brought us to a fine vale, where we lodged by 
a creek called Saurel , and were grievoufly 
Hung all night with fmall gnats, lb that I llept 
very little. 
The 7 th> we let out weft from Saurel creek 
and traveled down the vale, which is pretty 
good land ; and leaving the creek, loon crofled 
another runing along the north fide of the vale, 
by the bank of which we rode through a grove 
of 
