G G ft t E N T 
—touches at the river Taenfapaoa — paffes over Lake Maufepas— proceeds 
tip to Iberville — croffes by land to Manchac — goes up the Miffilfippl — 
fettlements of New Richmond — White Plains — curious mufcle fhellsih the 
river— croffes over to Point Coupe— Spanifh village and fortrefs- — high 
cliffs oppofite Point Coupe — returns to the Amite, thence down through 
the lanksand founds back again to Mobile 416 
CHAP. VIII.' 
Leaves Mobile on his return — proceeds with a company of traders Tor 
the Creek nation — his horfe tires — is in great diftrefs — meets a company 
of traders, of whom he purchafes a frefh horfe — Illicium groves — meets a 
company of emigrants from Georgia — great embarraffment at a- large 
creek fwollen with late heavy rains — arrives at the banks of the Alabama 
croffes it and arrives at MucclafTe — Indian marriage — ferious reSec- 
tions — perilous fituation of the trader of Mucclaffe — fets off for Ottaffe — 
defcribes the country contiguous to the Tallapoofe river — plantations and 
towns—Coolome — Tuckabatche — -croffes the river and arrives at Ottaffe — 
rotunda and fquare — blank drink — fpiral fire— Sabbath or holy day t© the 
Great Spirit — fets off with a company of traders for Georgia — Chehaw 
and Uffeta, Creek towns on the Apalachucla river, almoft join each other, 
yet the inhabitants fpcak two languages radically different — arrives at the 
Oakmulge— croffes the river in a portable leather boat — croffes the river 
Oconne — head branches of Great Ogeche' — arrives at Augufta— takes 
leave of Augufta and his friends there, and proceeds for Savanna— -lift of 
Mufcogulge towns and villages — conjectures concerning the rife of the. 
Mufcogulge confederacy 438 
CHAP. IX. 
Short excurfion in the South of Georgia— makes colledlionc— gathers 
feed of two new and very curious fhrubs 465 
CHAP. X. 
Proceeds for Charlefton — Calls at a gentleman's plantation — Adoe— 
Tannier— wild pigeons—'-After fruticofus — leaves Charleston, proceeds on 
his return home to Pennfylvania — croffes Cooper river, nine miles above 
the city — Long Bay— reefs of rocks— meets a gang of Negroes— paffes the 
boundary houfe — large favanna — Dionsea mufcipula — old towns — Brunf- 
wick — the Clarendon or Cape Fear river— North Weft — Livingfton's 
creek — Wackamaw lake — Carver's creek— Afhwood— various vegetable 
productions— cultivated vegetables— defcribes the face of the country on 
the banks of the North Weft and the adjacent lands— ftrata of the earth or 
foil — rocks — petrifactions — ancient fubmarine productions, &c, — leaves 
Afhwood, continues up the river — vaft trunks of trees, with their roots, 
and ftumps of limbs, with the bark on, turned into very hard ftone- — 
Rock-fifh creek — Crofs Creeks — the rife, progrcfs, and prefent ftate of 
Gambelton— curious fpecies of fcandent Fern — Deep River— croffes Haw 
River — Meherren river in Virginia— Cucurbita lagenaria — cuwous fpecies 
of Prinos — Alexandria — George town — fudden fall of fnow — extreme 
cold — croffes the river Sufquehanna upon the ice— river Schuylkill— arrives 
at his father's houfe, within three miles of Philadelphia 467 
PART IV. 
CHAP. I 
Perfons, character, and qualifications of the Aborigines — moft perfect 
human figure — Mufcogulge women— women of the Cherokees — arrogance 
cf. tike Mufcogulges., yet magnanimous and merciful t° a vanquifhed enemy 
481 
CHAP, 
