TRAVELS IN 
veyors were appointed, by the governor and coun- 
cil, to afcertain the boundaries of the new pur- 
chafe ; they were to be attended by chiefs of the 
Indians, fele&ed and delegated by their country- 
men, to affift, and be witneifes that the articles of 
the treaty were fulfilled, as agreed to by both par- 
ties in Congrefs. 
Col. Barnet, who was chofen to conduct this 
bufinefs on the part of the Georgians, a gentleman 
every way qualified for that important truft, in a 
very friendly and obliging manner, gave me an in- 
vitation to accompany him on this tour. 
It was now about the middle of the month of 
May ; vegetation, in perfection, appeared with all 
her attractive charms, breathing fragrance every 
where ; the atmofphere was now animated with the 
efficient principle of vegetative life \ the arbuftive 
hills, gay lawns, and green meadows, which on 
every fide inveft the villa of Augufta, had already 
received my frequent vifits ; and although here 
much delighted with the new beauties in the vege- 
table kingdom, and many eminent ones have their 
fequeilered refidence near this place, yet, as I was 
never long fatished with prefent polfeiTion, however 
endowed with every poflible charm to attract the 
light, or intrinfic value, to engage and fix the ef- 
teem, I was reftlefs to be fearching for more, my 
curiofity being infatiable. 
Thus it is with regard to cur affections and at- 
tachments, in the more important and interet ' 
concerns of human life. 
Upon the rich rocky hills at the cataracts o-j 
gufta, I firft obferved the perfumed rhc 
ferrugiiie . 
