A VOYAGE TO 
i?7 S - The only animals of the reptile kind ohferved here, and 
found in the woods, were brown fnakes two feet long, with 
whitifh flripes on the back and fides ; which are harmlefs, 
as we often faw the natives carry them alive in their hands; 
and brownifh water-lizards, with a tail exadtly like that 
of an eel, which frequented the fmall Handing pools about 
the rocks. 
The infe£t tribe leem to be more numerous. For 
though the feafon, which is peculiarly fitted to their ap¬ 
pearing abroad was only beginning, we faw four or five 
different forts of butterflies, none of which were uncom¬ 
mon ; a good many humble-bees; fome of our common 
goofeberry moths; two or three forts of flies; a few 
beetles; and fome mufquitoes, which, probably, may be 
more numerous and troublefome in a country fo full of 
wood, during the Summer, though at this time they did 
little mifchief. 
As to the mineral fubflances in this country, though we 
found both iron and copper here, there is little reafon to be¬ 
lieve that either of them belong to the place. Neither 
were the ores of any metal feen, if we except a coarfe, red, 
earthy, or ochry fubflance, ufed by the natives in paint¬ 
ing themfelves, which probably may contain a little iron; 
with a white and a black pigment ufed for the fame pur- 
pofe. But we did not procure fpecimens of them, and 
therefore cannot pofitively determine what are their com¬ 
ponent parts. 
Beiides the flone or rock that conflitutes the mountains 
and fliores, which fometimes contains pieces of very coarfe 
quartz, we found, amongfl the natives, things made of a 
hard black granite , though not remarkably compact or fine 
grained; a greyifh whetftone; the common oil flone of our 
carpenters. 
