TRAVELS IN 
the ftrawberry plains to regale on the fragrant, deli- 
cious fruit, welcomed by communities of the fplen- 
did meleagris, the capricious roe-buck, and all the 
free and happy tribes which poffefs and inhabit thofe 
prolific fields, who appeared to invite and joined 
with me in the participation of the bountiful repaft 
prefented to us from the lap of nature. 
I mounted again, and followed the trading path 
about a quarter of a mile through the fields, then 
gently afcended the green beds of the hills, and en- 
tered the forefts, being a point of a chain of hills 
projecting into the green vale or low lands of the 
rivers. This foreft continued about a mile, the fur-* 
face of the land level but rough, being covered with 
ftones or fragments of rocks, and very large, fmooth 
pebbles of various fhapes and fizes, fome of ten or 
fifteen pounds weight ; I obferved on each fide of 
the road many vaft heaps of thefe ftones, Indian, 
graves undoubtedly*. 
After I left the graves, the ample vale foon of* 
fered on my right hand, through the tall foreft 
trees, charming views, which exhibited a pleafing 
contraft, immediately out of the gloomy ftiades and 
fcenes of death, into expanfive, lucid, green, flow- 
ery fields, expanding between retiring hills, and 
turfy eminences, the rapid Tanafe gliding through, 
as a vaft ferpent rufhing after his prey. 
My winding path now leads me again over the 
green fields into the meadows, fometirnes vifiting 
* At this place was fought a bloody and decifive battle between thefe 
Indians and the Carolinians, under the condudl of general Middleton, 
when a great number of Cherokee warriors were flain, which fhook their 
power, terrified and humbled them, infomuch that they deferted moft of 
their fettlements in the low countries, and betook themfelves to the moun=> 
t^ins as lefe acceflible to the regular forces of the white people. 
