TRAVELS IN 
CHAP. II. 
After conferring with gentlemen in Augutla, 
converfant in Indian affairs, concerning my future 
travels in thofe diftant, unexplored regions, arid 
obtaining letters to their agents in the Indian ter- 
ritories, I fet off, proceeding for Fort James Dart- 
mouth, at the confluence of Broad River with 
Savanna, the road leading me near the banks of the 
river for the diftance of near thirty miles, crofting 
two or three of its considerable branches, befides 
rivulets and fmaller brooks. The furface of the 
land uneven, by means of ridges or chains of fwell- 
ing hills and correfponding vales, with level downs j 
the foil a loofe, grayinVbrown loamy mould on the 
hills, but darker and more cohefive and humid in the 
vales and downs ; this fuperficial, vegetative earth, 
covers a deep ftratum of very tenacious yellowifh 
clay : the downs afford grafs and various herbage ; 
the vales and hills, foreff trees and fhrubs of various 
tribes, i. e. Quercus tinctoria, Q^alba, rubra, CX 
lobata, Acer rubrum, A. Saccharinutn, A. glaucum, 
M©rus rubra, Gleditfia triaeanthus, Juglans hickory, 
various fpecies, Quercus philos, Quer. dentata, f. 
hemifpherica, Quercus aquatica, or Maryland 
Water Oak, Ulmus fylvatica, Liriodendron, Li- 
quid-amber Diofpyros, Cornus Florida, Primus In- 
dica, Prunus padus and ^Efculus pavia ; and, near 
water courfes in the vales, Stewartia malachoden- 
dron, Haiefia, iEfculus fylvatica, Styrax, Carpinus, 
Magnolia acuminata, Mag. tripetala, Mag. auri- 
culata, Azalea, &o- The rich humid lands in the 
vales bordering on creeks and bafes of the hills, 
likewife prcrduce various trees, fhrubs and plants* 
as Cercis, Corylus a Ptelea. Evonimus, Philadelphia 
inodorus, 
