TRAVELS IN 
CHAP. BEL 
I Sat off early in the morning for the Indian 
trading-houfe, in the river St. Mary, and took the 
road up the N. E. fide of the Alatamaha to Fort-Bar- 
rington. I paffed through a well inhabited diftrift, 
moftly rice plantations, on the waters of Cathead 
creek, a branch of the Alatamaha. On drawing 
near the fort, I was greatly delighted at the appear- 
ance of two new beautiful fhrubs, in all their bloom- 
ing graces. One of them appeared to be a fpecies 
of Gordonia # but the flowers are larger, and more 
fragrant than thofe of the Gordonia, Lafcanthus, 
and are feffile ; the feed veffel is alfo very different. 
The other was equally diftinguifhed for beauty and 
fmgularity ; it grows twelve or fifteen feet high, the 
branches afcendant and oppofite, and terminate with 
large panicles of pale blue tubular flowers, fpeckled 
on the infide with Crimfon ; but, what is fingular, 
thefe panicle^ are ornamented with a number of 
ovate large bracless, as white, and like fine paper, 
their tops and verges flamed with a rofe red, which, 
at a little diftance, has the appearance of duffers of 
rofes, at the extremities of the limbs: the flowers 
are of the CI. Pentandria monogyriia ; the leaves 
are nearly ovate, pointed and petioled, {landing op- 
pofite to one another on the branches. 
After fifteen miles riding, I arrived at the ferry, 
which is near the fite of the fort. Here is a confi- 
derable height and bluff on the river, and evident 
* Franklinia Alatahan^a 
veftiges 
