I Suppose He Expected To Have Had A Spaniel Bitch,
That I Had With Me, For His Breakfast, Who Run Towards Him,
But In The Midway Stopt Her Career, And Came Sneaking Back To Us
With Her Tail Betwixt Her Legs.
We saw in the Path a great many Trees blown up by the Roots,
at the Bottom whereof stuck
Great Quantities of fine red Bole;
I believe nothing inferior to that of Venice or Lemma.
We found some Holes in the Earth, which were full of a Water as black as Ink.
I thought that Tincture might proceed from some Mineral,
but had not Time to make a farther Discovery. About Noon we pass'd over
a pleasant stony Brook, whose Water was of a bluish Cast,
as it is for several hundreds of Miles towards the Heads of the Rivers,
I suppose occasion'd by the vast Quantities of Marble
lying in the Bowels of the Earth. The Springs that feed
these Rivulets, lick up some Potions of the Stones in the Brooks;
which Dissolution gives this Tincture, as appears in all,
or most of the Rivers and Brooks of this Country, whose rapid Streams
are like those in Yorkshire, and other Northern Counties of England.
The Indians talk of many Sorts of Fish which they afford,
but we had not Time to discover their Species.
I saw here had been some Indian Plantations formerly,
there being several pleasant Fields of clear'd Ground, and excellent Soil,
now well spread with fine bladed Grass, and Strawberry-Vines.
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