Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-06-27

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1t man. iis u-oTizl dread when a
>hoaI ii roToi>es dashes through
the water: it, curious night journeys
on the land the ease with which
one can call it to the surface by imi-
taiing the cry of dog or the squeal
of a pig +: the little mound-like eleva-
ton of clay. in which the female de-
posts her eggs, in successive layers,
to be hatchcd by the heat of the SUI. !;
its below, heard most frequently in
dark and stormy nights; its skin,
impervious, except in few places, to
muskct-ball; the tremendous
stroke OF its tail in the direction ofits
mouth; the upward movement of it's
upper jaw; its slow growth, and the
great age to which it lives, some
times, it is said, three hundred years.
La Sale and his companions sub
sisted for a time on alligator-steak
anil potatoes. It's hollow tooth
makes good powdcr-chargc, and
its skin is priced by tanners. One
could locate lots in Planquemine
Parish with enough alligator-spincs
for rails to fence them.
During the high water Of Spring
and early Summer, this narrow strip
of alluvium fills with water like
sponge. Every acre of cultivated
land has then to be drained, with
bitches running up almost to the
levce on the river bank, and into
which the salt water creeps at high
tide. Yet these bitches would not
suffice to drain off the fresh water,
were they not aided by myriads upon
myriads of land crabs, or" tiddlers",
as they are commonly called, that
everywhere bore into the soil, and
honcycomb it with innumerahle
chambers and passages. At times,
the margins of these bitches, as also
the banks of the river, are literary
covered with these curious creatures,
that, without turning round, run i'll
every direction, almost as fast as a
man can walk. They are armed
with formidable single claw, nearly
as long as the rest of the body, some
times on the right side and some
times on the left which they open
and raise aloft when alarmed, as a
heightened stag throws up his ant
lers. When they can no longer
bore down to the water, they leave
the field for the swamp, or the mar.
gin of the river.
In these bayous, but most abund'
antly in the Mississippi, may be
seen the gar-pikc, the lepidostens o'
naturalists, now only found in lakes
and rivers of North America, saved
says Hugh Miller, amid the wrecks
of gcaera and species, to serve as q
kew 10 unlock the marvels Of the
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