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APPENDIX. 225 
Buffaloes on the Shenandoah Rwer, Virginia. — On pages 85 to 87 evidence is 
cited in proof of the former occurrence of the buffalo on the sources of the 
James. My attention has since been called by Mr. Geo. Graham to the fol- 
lowing passage in Watson’s “ Annals of Philadelphia” :* “The latest mention 
of buffaloes nearest to our region of country is mentioned in 1730, when 
a gentleman from the Shanadore, Va., saw there a buffalo killed of 1,400 
pounds, and several others came in a drove at the same time.’ This was 
probably a wandering herd “from the region of the Upper James River, 
where, as already shown, they at that time existed. 
A “Buffalo Creck” in Southern Georgia. — As will be presently noticed, the 
buffalo extended, about 1720 to 1750, considerably to the southward, in the 
States of Mississippi and Louisiana, of its range at the time De Soto and 
La Salle traversed these States. Catesby also found the buffalo on the 
Upper Savannah River, about “ Fort Moore,” in 1754, while Bartram refers to 
the existence, in 1774, of a locality known as “Great Buffalo Lick” on the 
divide between the Savannah and Altamaha Rivers,—a region well known 
to have been traversed by De Soto and others, one hundred to two hundred 
and thirty years earlier, and who did not either meet with or hear anything 
of the existence of buffaloes anywhere in that section of the country. In 
the extreme southeastern part of Georgia (Camden County), however, 
there is found a small creek emptying into the Santilla River, at its great 
bend to the eastward, which still bears the name of “ Buffalo Creek.” If this 
is to be taken as sufficient proof of the former presence there of buffaloes, 
it may imply that the region was casually visited by a roving band of buffa- 
loes from the region northward some time probably between the years 1700 
and 1770. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this region was 
traversed by several different explorers, who, as is evident from their writ- 
ings, did not meet with or hear of buffaloes here. It is, however, quite 
possible that subsequently buffaloes may have occasionally wandered to 
Southeastern Georgia, and even to portions of Florida. In all other cases 
the name “Buffalo Creek” proves to have had its origin in the former 
presence of buffaloes in the vicinity of the streams so named. 
While it is certain that many of the allusions to the existence of the 
buffalo in Florida do not refer to the present area of Florida, it is possible 
that some of the later ones already discussed (see pages 97-101) may refer 
to a brief occupation of portions of that State by this animal during the 
* Page 674 of the edition of 1830; Vol. H, p. 484, of the later edition. 
