River Country of Georgia 



the vine. Those which fall into the river are 

 often found in large quantities in the eddies 

 along the bank, where they are collected by 

 men in boats and sometimes made into 

 wine. I think another name for this grape is 

 the Scuppernong,^ though called "muscadine" 

 here. 



Besides sailing on the river, we had a long 

 walk among the plant bowers and tangles of 

 the Chattahoochee bottom lands. 



September 25. Bade good-bye to this friendly 

 family. Mr. Prater accompanied me a short 

 distance from the house and warned me over 

 and over again to be on the outlook for rattle- 

 snakes. They are now leaving the damp low- 

 lands, he told me, so that the danger is much 

 greater because they are on their travels. Thus 

 warned, I set out for Savannah, but got lost 

 in the vine-fenced hills and hollows of the river 



* The old Indian name for the southern species of fox- 

 grape, Vitis rotundifolidy which Muir describes here. Wood's 

 Botany listed it as Vitis vulpina L. and remarks "The va- 

 riety called ^Scuppernong' is quite common in southern 

 gardens." 



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