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(p. 205) . His next trip took him beyond the Alachua savanna 

 to '" Talahasochte," thirty miles north of St. Marks. When he 

 returned to the trading-post on the St. Johns he again set off 

 " searching the shores " and was rewarded for his " assiduity 

 in the society of beauties in the blooming realms of Florida " 

 (p. 253). Finally he returned to Sunbury, Georgia, and from 

 there to Charleston, where he planned his future travels. 



In Part III Bartram narrates his travels in the Cherokee terri- 

 tories and the Chactaw country. On April 22, 1776, now three 

 years after he left Philadelphia, he struck out for " the Cherokee 

 nation." He made twenty-five miles the first day, arriving at 

 " Jacksonburg " (Jacksonboro) . He again went into Georgia, 

 visited Savannah and Augusta, passed through Fort James Dart- 

 mouth, Wrightsborough, then followed the Savannah which, 

 above the " Tugilo," was called Keowe. Here he observed " the 

 flaming Azalea . . . illuminate the hill-sides " (p. 328) , abund- 

 ance of grape vines, and, finally, the Cherokee town of 

 Sinika, on the South Carolina shore. He visited the " Occonne 

 [Oconee] valley " and proceeded to the Cherokee mountains 

 where he named a high peak Mount Magnolia, "" from a new 

 and beautiful species of that celebrated family of trees, which 

 here . . . grows in a high degree of perfection " (p. 339) . From 

 Keowe (or Cowe) , the Cherokee capital, he struck out, against 

 the advice of the traders, for the dangerous Overhill towns, 

 but after a short journey convinced himself that it would be 

 wise to turn back. Once more he returned to Georgia, this time 

 following a western route beyond the Flint River, " an arm of 

 the great Chata Uche," where he was impressed with the exten- 

 sive cane swamps and meadows, and where burning flies tor- 

 mented the horses of the party of traders he had joined. He 

 crossed into West Florida, then into Alabama, and followed 

 the Tallapoosa and Alabama rivers, as far as " Taensa " 

 (Tensas) , where he took a boat for Mobile. He found the city, 

 on July 31, 1776^ "very hot and sultry," but stayed on till 

 August 5th, when he returned to Taensa, where he contracted 



'The first edition (Phila., 1791), p. 404, prints the year as '* 1778," which 

 is obviously a misprint, as Bartram returned to his Philadelphia home in January, 

 1778 (p. 480). All subsequent editions repeat the misprint. 



