10 
TRAVELS IN 
profelytes to a flock, which this pious man led 
about forty years ago, from South Carolina, and 
fettled in this fruitful diftiicl. It is about nine 
miles from Sunbury to Medway meeting-houfe, 
which (lands on the high road oppofite the Sun- 
bury road. As foon as the congregation broke up, 
I re-aflumed my travels, proceeding down the high 
road towards Fort Barrington, on the Alatamaha, 
palling through a level country, well watered by 
large ftreams, branches of Medway and Newport 
rivers, courfmg from extenfive fwamps and marines, 
their fources : thele fwamps are daily clearing 
and improving into large fruitful rice plantations, 
aggrandizing the well inhabited and rich diftricl of 
St. John's parifh. The road is ftraight, fpacious, 
and kept in excellent repair by the induftrious in- 
habitants ; and is generally bordered on each fide 
with a light grove, confiding of the following trees 
and fhrubs : Myrica, Cerifera, Calycanthus, Halefia 
tetraptera, Itea, ftewartia, Andromeda nitida, Cy- 
rella racemiflora, entwined with bands and gar- 
lands of Bignonia fempervirens, B. crucigera, Lo- 
nicera, fempervirens and Glycene frutefcens ; thefe 
were overfhadowed by tall and fpreading trees, as 
the Magnolia grandinora, Liquid ambar, Lirio- 
dendron, Catalpa, Quercus fempervirens, Quercus 
dentata, Phillos ; and on the verges of the 
canals, where the road was caufwayed, flood 
the CuprefTus diflicha, Gordonia Lacianthus, and 
Magnolia glauca, all planted by nature, and left 
Handing, by the virtuous inhabitants, to fhade the 
road, and perfume the fultry air. The extenfive 
plantations of rice and corn, now in early ver- 
dure, decorated here and there with groves of flo- 
riferous and fragrant trees and fhrubs, under the 
cover 
