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 
warmed, I set out for Savannah, but got lost 
in the vine-fenced hills and hollows of the river 
1 The old Indian name for the southern species of fox- 
grape, Vitis rotundifolia, which Muir describes here. Wood’s 
Botany listed it as Vitis oulpina L. and remarks, “The va- 
riety called ‘Scuppernong’ is quite commion in southern 
gardens.” 
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