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pillage. î In confequeric'é* théreferë, ^f^ll^l^fol-matidMi
the proper préparations were immediately màde to Jpur-
fue them w ith 'alaiMtfV Mé^èr'did-thé bfâ v^arri8ri;ë i^
play more vigour* than on this - bcéafîorh TWeafing' aloiid
that he now would be revenged 5f'them all,1
coûte.’
fe Though they dig into hell, thence Ih^U mine jiaad takp ;;
" than up to heaven, thence will J^bling ! ,
<c them'down.'”
Büt how far his general ftiipon this ôecafion provèd to
be a match for that.ofuB^^yj I niufi beg leave to re-
ferve for the fubceeding chapter.
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C H AS P. XXII.
Alarm in ibeRirica River— A Detachment marches to its
5 R e lie fsAmèêfcade— Wonderful Rffêêl froth the Biting o f
~ a Bat— Scer^e.in’ a- Quagmire—Sk'ëtch 'of thé Inquijitión
- arid Return of'thé’- ftfoüpfïlö 'Gdrnioeiibo
O N the mórning of' the 19th o f September 1775, juft c h a p .
before' :fbn-fife,j Colonel Seybiirg marched1 with XXH.
one hundted marines and forty raHgèrs/ who did me the
hoho||#di^fi^|^öhrh i^ ^ ^ ^ f^ tT O !p a ty i -and was upon
the whole fo polite^ and his beha.^ur fo ^ntrary to what
it had lately been, that I knew not at all in what maimer
to account for it. •
; Having crofted thé Cormoetibo Creek, we kept courfe
S. W. and by Sv till' we approached thé ; river Cotticai
where We encamped, having met with nothing on our
firft day’s march worth defcribirig, except a fpeciës 'o f
ants, which were no lefs than one inch in length, and
perfectly black. ' Thefe infèóts pillage a tree o f all its
leaves in a fhört time, which they cut in fmall pieces the
fize of a fix-pence, and carry under-ground.It was indeed
entertaining t'o fee a whole army o f thefe creatures
crawling perpetually the fame Way, each with hik green-
leaf in a perpendicular direétiöh. • So general is the pro-
penfity t ifth e marvellous, that forne have' imagined that
V o l . It. T this it