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TRAVELS IN 
and meadows, little differing from the environs of 
Capola, diverfified with rocky ifiets or hommocks 
of dark woodland. 
We next entered a vafl forefl of the moft ftately 
Pine trees that can be imagined, planted by na- 
ture at a moderate diflance, on. a level, graffy plain, 
enamelled with a variety of flowering fhrubs, viz. 
Viola, Ruella, infundibuliforma, Amaryllis atamaf- 
co, Mimofa fenfitiva, Mimofa intfia and many 
others new to me. This fublirne forefl continued 
five or fix miles, when we came to dark groves of 
Oaks, Magnolias, Red bays, Mulberries, &c. through 
which proceeding near a mile, we entered open 
fields, and arrived at the town of Talahafochte, on 
the banks of Little St. Juan. 
The river Little St. Juan may, with fingular pro- 
priety, be termed the pellucid river. The waters 
are the cleared and purefl of any river I ever faw, 
tranfmitting diflin&ly the natural form and appear- 
ance of the obje&s moving in the tranfparent floods, 
or repofing on the filvery bed, with the finny inha- 
bitants fporting in its gently flowing ftream. 
The river at the town is about two hundred yards 
over, and fifteen or twenty feet in depth. The 
great fwamp and lake Oaquaphenogaw is faid to be 
its fource, which is about one hundred miles by land 
North of this place ; which would give the. river a 
courfe of near two hundred miles from its fource to 
the fea, to follow its meanders; as in general our 
rivers, that run any confiderable diflance through 
the country to the fea, by their windings and roving 
about to find a paffage through the ridges and 
heights, at leaf! double their diflance. 
The 
