TRAVELS IN 
Next day we fet off on our return to the lower 
trading-houfe, propofmg to encamp at a favanna, 
about twelve miles diftance from this, where we 
were to halt again and Hay a day or two, in order 
to collect together another party of horfes, which 
had been ftationed about that range. The young 
wild horfes often breaking from the company, ren- 
dered our progrefs flow and troublefome ; we how- 
ever arrived at the appointed place long before 
night, 
I had an opportunity this day of collecting a va- 
riety of fpecimens and feeds of vegetables, fome of 
which appeared new to me, particularly Sophora, 
Cifius, Tradefcantia, Hypoxis, Iatropa, Gerardai, 
Pedicularis, Mimofa fenfkiva, Helonias, Melan- 
thium, Lilium, Aletris, Agave, Cactus, Zamia, 
Empetrum, Erythryna, Echium, &c. 
Next day, ihe people being again engaged in 
their bufinefs of ranging the forefts and plains, in 
fearch of their horfes, I accompanied them, and in 
our rambles we again vifited the great favanna and 
lake, called the Long Pond : the lake is nearly in 
the middle of the fpacious lawn, of an oblong form ; 
above two miles wide and feven in length ; one end 
approachingthe high green banks adjoining the fo- 
refts, where there is an enchanting grove and grot- 
to of pellucid waters, inhabited with multitudes of 
nfh, continually afcending and defcending through 
the clean, white rocks, Hoping from the green 
verged fhore, by gradual fleps, from fmooth, flat 
pavements wafhed by the fwelling undulations of 
the waters. 
Arrived in the evening at camp, where we found 
the reft of our companions bufily employed in fe- 
curing 
