^ NORTH AMERICA. If 
veftiges of an ancient Indian town may be ieen, 
fuch as old extenfive fields, and conical mounds, 
or artificial heaps of earth. I here crolTed the ri- 
ver, which is about five hundred yards over, in a 
good large boat, rowed by a Creek Indian, who 
was married to a white woman ; he feemed an ac- 
tive, civil, and fenfible man. I faw large, tali trees 
of the Nyffa coccinea, fl. Ogeeche, growing on the 
banks of the river. They grow in the water, near 
the more. There is no tree that exhibits a more 
defirable appearance than this, in the autumn, 
when the fruit is ripe, and the tree diverted of its 
leaves ; for then they look as red as fcarlef, with 
their fruit, which is of that colour alfo. It is of 
the map®, but larger than the olive, containing an 
agreeable acid juice. The leaves are oblong lan- 
ceolate and entire, fomewhat hoary underneath ; 
their upper furface of a full green, and mining ; 
the petioles fhort, pedunculis multifloris. The mod 
northern fettlement of this tree, yet known, is on 
Great Ogeeche, where they are called Ogeeche 
limes, from their acid fruit being about the fize of 
limes, and their being fometimes ufed in thek 
ftead. 
Being fafely landed on the oppofite bank, I 
mounted my horfe, and followed the high road to 
the ferry on St. llle, about fixty miles fouth of the 
Alatamaha, pafling through an uninhabited wilder- 
nefs. The fudden tranfition from rich uncultivated 
fettlements, to high pine forefts, dark and graffy 
favannas, forms in my opinion no difagreeable con-' 
trafts ; and the new objects of obfervation in the 
w 7 orks of nature foon reconcile the furprifed ima- 
gination to the change. As foon as I had loft fight 
of the river, afcending fome fand-hills, I obferved 
G a new 
