They Are Not So Large
As In Europe, But Much Larger Than Any Fallow-Deer.
They are always fat,
I believe, with some delicate Herbage that grows on the Hills;
for we find all Creatures that graze much fatter and better Meat on the Hills,
than those in the Valleys:
I mean towards and near the Sea.
Some Deer on these Mountains afford the occidental Bezoar,
not coming from a Goat, as some report. What sort of Beast affords
the oriental Bezoar, I know not. The Tallow of the Harts
make incomparable Candles. Their Horns and Hides are of the same Value,
as others of their kind.
{Fallow-Deer.}
Fallow-Deer in Carolina, are taller and longer-legg'd, than in Europe;
but neither run so fast, nor are so well haunch'd. Their Singles are
much longer, and their Horns stand forward, as the others incline backward;
neither do they beam, or bear their Antlers, as the English Deer do.
Towards the Salts, they are not generally so fat and good Meat,
as on the Hills. I have known some kill'd on the Salts in January,
that have had abundance of Bots in their Throat, which keep them very poor.
As the Summer approaches, these Bots come out, and turn into
the finest Butterfly imaginable, being very large, and having black, white,
and yellow Stripes. Deer-Skins are one of the best Commodities
Carolina affords, to ship off for England, provided they be large.
{Fox Squirrel.}
Of Squirrels we have four Sorts.
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