NORTH AMERICA. J3 
when I loft my way ; but coming up to a fence, I 
faw a glimmering light, which conducted me to a 
houfe, where I Hayed all night, and met with very 
civil entertainment. Early next morning I fet of! 
again, in company with the overfeer of the farm, 
who piloted me through a large and difficult fwamp, 
when we parted ; he in chafe of deer, and I to- 
wards Darian. I rode feveral miles through a high 
foreft of pines, thinly growing on a level plain, 
which admitted an ample view, and a free circula- 
tion of air, to another fwamp ; and croffing a con- 
fiderable branch of Sapello river, I then came to a 
fmall plantation by the fide of another fwamp : the 
people were remarkably civil and hofpitable. The 
man's name was M'Intofh, a family of the firft co- 
lony eftablilhed in Georgia, under the conduct of 
general Oglethorpe. Was there ever fuch a fcene 
of primitive fimplicity, as was here exhibited, fmce 
the days of the good king Tammany. The vener- 
able grey-headed Caledonian fmilingly meets me 
coming up to his houfe. " Welcome, ftranger ; 
come in, and reft ; the air is now very fultry ; it 
is a very hot day." I was there treated with fome 
excellent venifon, and here found friendly and fe- 
cure fhelter from a tremendous thunder ftorm, which 
came up from the N. W. and foon after my arrival 
began to difcharge its fury all around. Stepping 
to the door to obferve the progrefs and direction 
of the tempeft, the fulgour and rapidity of the 
ftreams of lightning, pairing from cloud to cloud, 
and from the clouds to the earth, exhibited a very 
awful fcene ; when inftantly the lightning, as it 
were, opening a fiery chafm in the black cloud, 
darted with inconceivable rapidity on the trunk of a 
large pine tree, that ftood thirty or forty yards from 
rae, and fet it in a blaze. The flame inftantly 
afcended 
