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confpicuoufly beauriful flowering ihrub, grows to 
the height of five or fix feet ; many divergent crook- 
ed ffems arife together from a root or fource, which 
dividing their branches wreath about every way, 
after a very irregular and free order ; the exterior 
fubdivifions of thefe limbs terminate with a heavy 
clutter or thyrfis of rofe or pink coloured flowers, 
fpeckled or variegated with crimfon, larger, more 
expanfivs and regular in their formation than thofe 
of the Pavia ; and thefe heavy fpikes of flowers, 
charged with the morning dews, bend the flender 
flexile ftems to the ground : the compound leaves 
are of the configuration of thofe of the Pavia, but 
broader and their veins more prominent. The 
fhrubs growing about the tops of the more barren 
graflfy hills, where large trees are few and fcattered ? 
mow themfelves to great advantage, and make a 
fine appearance. 
There are abundance of Grape vines (Vitis vini- 
fera) which ramble and fpread themfelves over 
the fhrubs and low trees in thefe fituations, and I 
was aflured produced fruit affording an excellent 
juice : the grapes are of various colours when ripe, 
of the figure and about the fize of the European 
wine grapes. Arrived at Sinica in the evening, af- 
ter travelling for ty five miles through an uninhabited 
wildernefs. 
The Cherokee town of Sinica is a very refpecla- 
ble fettlement, fituated on the E aft bank of the Ke- 
owe river, though the greateft number of Indian 
habitations are on the oppofite more, where like- 
wife (lands the council-houfe, in a level plain be- 
twixt the river and the range of beautiful lofty hills, 
which rife magnificently, and feem to bend over 
the green plains and the river : but the chief's houfe, 
with 
