Identifier: naturalhistoryof00bricrich (find matches)
Title: The natural history of North-Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners, and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Brickell, John, 1710?-1745 North Carolina. Trustees of the Public Libraries Lawson, John, 1674-1711 Grimes, J. Bryan (John Bryan), 1868-1923
Subjects: Indians of North America -- North Carolina Natural history -- North Carolina North Carolina -- Description and travel South Carolina -- Description and travel
Publisher: Dublin: Printed by James Carson. For the author, (Raleigh, Reprinted by authority of the Trustees of the public libraries
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hey are in Hatching their Eggs I never couldbe satisfied, or rightly informed, for the Indians with whomI conversed, say, it is most part of the Summer, and only bythe heat of the Sun; but some of the Christians assured me,this was performed in sixty Days, or thereabouts: Theiryoung ones are shaped exactly like a Lizard, Asker, or Effit,and they have short flat and large Tongues. I saw one ofthe young ones taken and brought to a Planters House whohad a Pond of Water before his Door (out of which he dugClay for Building) wherein he put the young Alligator, itremained there for half a Year, feeding on Guts of Fowl andother Flesh-meat and Frogs that ha))pcud to come into thePond. It grew so very domestick, that it would frequentlycome into the Dwelling House, and return again to the Pond:But at length it stole away to the Creek before the PlantersDwelling House, as was supposed, for it never could be seenor heard of afterwards. But to return to their Breeding their .\.\5 11)f ■y n;oeit
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of North Carolina. 135 their young ones. The old ones throw up Banks of Mold inthe wet Swamps, in form of a Sugar-Loaf, near the sides ofthe fresh Water-Rivers and Creeks, whereon they lay twentyor thirty Eggs, if not more, in the Season, where they remaintill such time as they are Hatched, and then they tumble intothe Waters, and fend for themselves in the like manner as theyoung Frogs do: I am perswaded they are one of the largestCreatures in the World to be produced out of so small a Be-ginning as an Egg not so large as a Goose s, for they some-times exceed eighteen Foot in length, they have Sixty Teeth,Sixty turning Joints, and are said to live no longer thanSixty Years. They are very crafty and subtile in takingtheir Prey in Waters, whereon they float as if dead, or likea log of Wood, till they come within reach of their Prey,which they will most nimbly seize by leaping upon them, andthen dive under Water with it, which they quickly devour.They are likewise very destructive and m

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