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 the water, one of which jumped o very high that he lighted directly above the Negro in to Bottom of the Canoe; which was with uch force that he broke the Negro's back, and mothered him where he lay,

Virginia is a pleaant and delightful Country, and abounds with fine Fruits, and many trange Animals. Here is the Pointer who hollows in the Woods with the Voice like a Man; and if he can trapan a Peron within his reach, he will intantly devour him. He is of the Dog kind, and very wift and fierce. Here too the Bull Frogs make such hideous croaking noie in the Marhes, that it is impoible for a tranger to leep near them: And the Fire Flies in the Night make a wonderfull Appearance. The Torbin too is a trange amphibious Animal, with a Head like a Frog, and Eyes like a Bird, with a Shell like a Turtle, under which he withdraws his Head from Danger at Pleaure, and from which he extends it again when his fright is over. This Creature is bigger then a large Pattan. I brought one alive to Glagow, under the Hen Coop, which fed upon the Excrements of the Fowls during the Paage.

There is a trange Inect in Virginia, called the Ball Tumbler, which forms a Bowl of Earth; and one of thoe Inects at every End of this Bowl of Earth continue to roll it along the whole Day and when Night comes on they go to ret under the lee of the Bowl, and return to their drudgery when the Day begins: It is about the ize of an Acorn and their Bowl with which they employ themelves to the end of their Days is about the ize of a Musket Bullet.

When I was in North Carolina, there came twelve of the Englih Indians, with a Scald to the