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to foeiety. Each of our purfuits was perhaps equally 
laudable ; and upon this fuppofition, I was quite 
willing to part with him upon amicable terms. 
My little vefTel being furnifhed with a good fail, 
and having fiming tackle, a neat light fufee, pow- 
der and ball, I found myfelf well equipped for mv 
voyage, about one hundred miles to the trading'- 
houfe. 
I croffed the river to a high promontory of 
wood-land, on the weft more, and being [truck with 
the magnificence of a venerable grove of Live Oak, 
Palms, and Laurel (Magnolia grandiflora) I ftepped 
on more to take a view of the place. Orange trees 
were in full bloom, and filled the air with fra- 
grance. 
It was now pad: noon, and this place being about 
eight miles above the Cow-ford, and the river near 
three miles in breadth, I wanted to reach a planta- 
tion in fight, on the oppofite more, in order to get 
fome repairs, my veflel having fuftained fome da- 
mage from the violence of the wind, in crorTmg over. 
I arrived late in the evening, and finding a conveni- 
ent landing-place and harbour, 1 concluded to re- 
main here till morning, and then coaft it ciofe along 
fhore to the plantation. 
It beginning to thunder, I was fufficiently warn- 
ed to prepare againft: a wet night; and obferving 
a very large Oak tree, which had been thrown 
down by a hurricane, and offered me a convenient 
fhelter, as its enormous limbs bore up the trunk 
a fufficient height from the earth to admit me to 
lit or lie down under it, I fpread my fail, flanting 
from the trunk of the tree to the ground, on the 
windward 
