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 pened to be in his way, he stepped in, and asked for Fikst 



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something to eat, and then months elapsed ere they saw 



him again. They did not know what had caused him to 

 be thus unsettled ; he had been so for years ; nor did 

 they believe that even old age itself, would change the 

 habits of this poor, harmless, solitary wanderer. 



From Simon's, the traveller may reach the large fall, 

 with ease, in four days. 



The first falls that he meets are merely rapids, scarce 

 a stone appearing above the water in the rainy sea- 

 son ; and those in the bed of the river, barely high 

 enough to arrest the water's course, and by causing a 

 bubbling show that they are there. 



With this small change of appearance in the stream, 

 the stranger observes nothing new, till he comes within 

 eight or ten miles of the great fall. Each side of the 

 river presents an uninterrupted range of wood, just as 

 it did below. All the productions found betwixt the 

 plantations and the rock Saba, are to be met with here. 



From Simon's to the great fall, there are five habita- 

 tions of the Indians. Two of them close to the river's 



side ; the other three a little way in the forest. These Indian habi- 

 tations. 



habitations consist of from four to eight huts, situated on 

 about an acre of ground, which they have cleared from the 

 surrounding woods. A few pappaw, cotton, and mountain 

 cabbage-trees, are scattered round them. 



At one of these habitations, a small quantity of the 



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