100 WILLIAM BARTRAM 



mounted on his nag climbing up a wooded hilL But every- 

 where, in time, he comes upon towns — and men, white and 

 Indian. Charleston is in his landscape, and Savannah, Augusta, 

 Sunbury, Fort Barrington, Wrightsborough, Buffalo Lick, 

 Broughton Island, Frederica, Mount Royal, Cuscowilla, Tala- 

 hasochte, St. Augustine, Mobile, Manchac, New Richmond, 

 Point Coupe, and a hundred other big and little hamlets and 

 trading posts with strange names, most of them long extinct 

 and forgotten. And Bartram stopped to observe the most inter- 

 esting of all animals, man, and his activities, just as he stopped 

 to observe the other activities of nature and the remains of man's 

 past activities — Indian ruins, mounds, burying grounds, tumuli. 



