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large and beautiful one, a little diftance from our 
camp. The alligator, a fpecies of crocodile, abounds 
in the rivers and fwamps, near the fea coaft, but is 
not to be feen above Augufta. Bears, tygers*, 
wolves, and wild cats (felis cauda truncata) are 
numerous enough : and there is a very great variety 
of papilio and phalena, many of which are admir- 
ably beautiful, as well as other infects of infinite va- 
riety. 
The furveyors having completed their obfervati- 
ons, we fet off next day on our return to Augufta, 
taking our route generally through the low lands on 
the banks of the Savanna. We croffefi Broad Ri- 
ver, at a newly fettled plantation, near its conflu- 
ence with the Savanna. On my arrival at Augufta, 
finding myfelf a little fatigued, I ftaid there a day 
or two, and then fet oft" again for Savanna, the ca- 
pital, where we arrived in good health. 
Having, in this journey, met with extraordinary 
fuccefs, not only in the enjoyment of an uninter- 
rupted ftate of good health, and efcaping ill acci- 
dents, incident to fuch excurfions, through unin- 
habited wildernefies, and an Indian frontier, but alfo 
in making a very extenfive collection of new dis- 
coveries of natural productions ; on the recollection 
of fo many and great favours and bleffings, I now, 
with a high fenfe of gratitude, prefume to offer up 
my fmcere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and 
Preferver. 
* This creature is called, in Pennfylvania and the northern States, pan- 
ther ; bat in Carolina and the fouthern States, is called tyger; it is very 
flrong, much larger than any dog, of a yellowifh brown, or clay colour 4 
having a very long tail : it is a mifehievous animal, and preys on calves, 
young colts, &c. 
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