NORTH AMERICA. 
3 2 9 
The evening {till and calm, all filent and peace- 
able, ;a vivifying gentle breeze continually wafted 
from the fragrant ftrawberry fields, and aromatic 
Calycanthean groves on the furroundiag heights ; 
and the wary moor fowl thundering in the diltant 
echoing hills : how the groves and hills ring with 
the fhrill perpetual voice of the whip-poor-will ! 
Abandoned as my fituation now was, yet thank 
heaven many objecls met together at thLs time, and 
conipired to conciliate, and in fome degree com- 
pofe my mind, heretofore fomewhat uejected and 
unharmonized : ail alone in a wild Indian country, 
a thoufand miles from my native land, and a vail 
diftance from any fettlements of white people. It 
is true, here were fome of my own colour, yet they 
were ftrangers ; and though friendly and hofpitable, 
their manners and cuftoms of living fo different 
from what I had been accuftomed to, adminiftered 
but little to my confolation : fome hundred miles 
^et to travel ; the favage vindictive inhabitants late?, 
ly ill-treated by the frontier Virginians ; blood be- 
ing fpilt between them and the injury not yet wiped 
£way by for ml treaty : the Cherokees extremely 
jealous of white people travelling about their 
mountains, efpecially if they mould be feen peep- 
ing in amongft the rocks, or digging up their 
earth. 
The vale of Kepwe is feven or eight miles in ex* 
fent, that is, from the little town of Kulfage * about 
a mile above, thence down the river fix or feven 
miles, where a high ridge of hills on each fide of 
the river almoft terminates the vale, but opens again 
below the narrpw ridge, and continues ten or twelve 
* Sugar Town, 
miles 
