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TRAVELS IN 
the eftabliinment of the fettlement. Mr. Mattock, 
who is now about feventy years of age, healthy and 
active, and prefides as Chief Magiftrate of the fet- 
tlement, received us with great hofpitality. The 
diftance from Augufta to this place is about thirty 
miles ; the face of the country is chiefly a plain, of 
high forefts, favannas, and cane fvvamps, until we 
approach Little "River, when the landfcape varies ? 
prefenting to view high hills and rich vales. The 
ibil is a deep, rich, dark mould, on a deep flratum 
of reddifh brown tenacious clay, and that on a foun- 
dation of rocks which often break through both 
ftrata, lifting their backs above the furface. The 
foreft trees are chiefly of the deciduous order, as, 
quercus, tinftoria, q. laciniata, q. alba, q. rubra, 
q. prinus, with many other fpecies ; celtis, fagus 
fylvatica, and, on the rocky hills, fagus caftanea, 
fag. purn'ila, quercus caftanea ; in the rich vales, 
juglans nigra, jug. cineiea, gleditfia triacanthos, 
raagiiolio acuminata, liriodendron, platanus, fraxi- 
nus excelfior, cercea, juglans exaltata, carpinus, 
morus rubra, calycanthus, halefia, adculus pavia> 
ssfc* arborea. 
Leaving the pleafant town of Wrightfborough 
we continued eight or nine miles through a fertile 
plain and high foreft, to the north branch of Little 
River, being the larger! of the two, eroding which, 
we entered an extenfive fertile plain, bordering on 
« he river, and Ifiaded by,trees of vaft growth, which 
at once fpoke its fertility. Continuing fome time 
thrdugh thefe fhady groves, the fcene opens, and 
difclofes to view the mod magnificent foreft I had 
ever feen. We rofe gradually a Hoping bank of 
twenty or thirty feet elevation, and immediately 
entered this fubiime fqreih The ground is perfectly 
a level 
