114 CHERRY-TREE HILL. 



In choosing night encampments, it would be 

 well for travellers, if they have any regard 

 for their personal comfort, to be particularly 

 cautious to avoid making their dormitory upon 

 the nest of the red ant, which cannot endure 

 intrusion, and consequently will give them so 

 inhospitable a reception, as to oblige a speedy 

 decampment to take place, leaving painful me- 

 mentos of their formidable forceps. This hap- 

 pened not to be our lot, and we enjoyed sound 

 repose (after our journey of thirty -three miles) 

 until towards the morning, when the chilness 

 of the air awoke us : the fire not having been 

 kept replenished was nearly extinguished, we, 

 however, soon made it blaze again by an addi- 

 tion of fuel, and as the dawn of day was fast 

 approaching, we prepared tea, — that beverage 

 being always found most refreshing after a 

 fatiguing day's journey, or before commencing 

 one, — previous to resuming our journey. 



As day dawned we proceeded on our jour- 

 ney, and arrived at a place called " Cherry- 

 tree Hill ;" on one side of it there is a steep, 

 almost perpendicular descent, which drays pass- 

 ing this road were formerly obliged to descend 

 at great risk ; but it is now avoided by a lately 

 discovered route, nearly three miles further 

 round. The view, looking from this hill into 



