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cabin, on the fide of a hill, a very agreeable prof- 
peel:, efpecially in my prefent condition • I made 
up to it and took quiet poffeflion, there being no 
one to difpute- it with me except a few bats and 
whip-poor-wills, who had repaired thither for fhel- 
ter from the violence of the hurricane. 
Having turned out my horfe in the fweet mea- 
dows adjoining, and found fome dry wood under 
fhelter of the old cabin, I ftruck up a fire, dried my 
clothes, and comforted myfelf with a frugal repaft 
of bifcuit and dried beef, which was all the food my 
viaticum afforded me by this time, excepting a 
imail piece of cheefe which I had furnimed myfelf 
with at Charlefton and kept till this time. 
The night was clear, calm and cool, and I reftecj 
quietly. Next morning at day break 1 was awak- 
ened and fummoned to refume my daily talk, by 
the fhrill cries of the focial night hawk and adtive 
merry mock- bird. By the time the fifing fun had 
gilded the tops of the towering hills, the mountains 
and vales rang with the harmonious fhouts of 
the pious and cheerful tenants of the groves and 
meads. 
I obferved growing in great abundance in thefe 
mountain meadows, Sanguiforba Canadenfis and 
Heracleum maximum ; the latter exhibiting a fine 
fliow, being rendered confpicuous even at a great 
diftance, by its great height and fpread, vaft peri- 
natifid leaves and expanfive umbels of mow-white 
flowers. The fwelling bafes of the furrounding 
hills fronting the meadows prefented for my ac- 
ceptance the fragrant red ftrawberry, in painted 
beds of many acres furface, indeed I may fafely fay, 
raany hundreds, 
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