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clear water, rolling over gravel and white fand, 
which being brought along with it, in its defcent 
down the fteeper fandy beach, formed an eafy (well- 
ing bank or bar. The waters fpread greatly at this 
place, exhibiting a lhallow glittering meet of clear 
water, but juft fufficient continually to cover the 
clear gravelly bed, and feemed to be funk a little 
below the common furface of the beach. This 
ftream, however, is foon feparated into a number of 
rivulets, by fmall fandy and gravelly ridges ; and the 
waters are finally ftolen away from the fight, by a 
charming green meadow, but again fecretly uniting 
under the tall grafs, form a little creek, meandering 
through the turfy plain, marking its courfe by reeds 
and rufhes, which fpring up from its banks, joining 
the main creek that runs through the favanna, and 
at length delivers the water into the Great Sink. 
Proceeding about a mile farther, we came up to 
and croiTed another brook larger than the former, 
which exhibited the like delightful appearance. 
We next paiTed over a level green lawn, a cove 
of the favanna, and arrived at a hilly grove. We 
alighted in a pleafant villa, turning our horfes to 
graze while we amufed ourfelves with exploring the 
borders of the Great Sink. In this place a group 
of rocky hills almoft fur rounds a large bafon, which 
is the general receptacle ©f the water, draining from 
every part of the vail: favanna, by lateral conduits, - 
winding about, and one after another joining the 
main creek or general conductor, which at length 
delivers them into this fmk 5 where they defcend by 
flow degrees, through rocky caverns, into the bow- 
els of the earth, whence they are carried by fecret 
fubterraneous channels into other receptacles and 
bafons. 
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