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compenfated for our difficulties and delays. I ob- 
served the great aconitum napellus, delphinium pe- 
regrinum, the carminative angelica lucica*. and ce- 
rulean maiva. 
We at length happily accomplifhed our line, ar- 
riving at the little river, where our hunters bring- 
ing in plenty of venifon and turkeys, we had a plen- 
tiful feaft at fupper. Next morning we marked the 
corner tree, at the confluence of Little River and the 
Savanna, and, foon after, the Indians amicably 
took leave of us, returning home to their towns. 
The rocks and foflils, which conftitute the hills 
of this middle region, are of various fpecies, as 
quartfum, ferrum, cos, filex, glarea, arena, ochra, 
itala&ites, faxum, mica, &c. I faw no figns of 
marble, plaiter, or lime-rlone ; yet there are, near 
Augufta, in the forefts, great piles of a porous fri- 
able white rock, in large and nearly horizontal 
maffes, which feems to be an heterogeneous con- 
crete, conhTting of pulverized fea mells, with a fraaft 
proportion of fand ; it is foft, and eafily wrought 
into any form, yet of fufficient confidence for con- 
ftru cling any building. 
As for the animal productions, they are the fame 
which originally inhabited this part of North Ame- 
rica, except fuch as have been affrighted away fmce 
the invafion oi the Europeans. The buffalo (urus) 
once fo very numerous, is not at this day to be feen 
in this part of the country; there are but few elks, and 
thofe only in the Apalachian mountains. The dreaded 
and formidable rattle-make is ye* too common, and 
a variety of other ferpents abound, particularly that 
admirable creature the glafs-fnake : I faw a very 
* Called nondo in Virgi ia ; by the Creek ar.d Cherokee traders, white 
root. 
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