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Next morning after breakfaft we fet off again, 
continuing nine or ten miles farther down the river, 
when \re flopped at a plantation, the property of 
one of our companions, where we were joined by 
the reft of the company. After dining here we pre- 
pared to depart ; and the gentleman of the houfe 
taking an affectionate leave of his wife and chil- 
dren, we fat off again, and proceeding fix miles 
farther down the river, we croffed over into Georgia, 
taking a road which led us into the great trading 
path from Augufta to the Creek nation. As the 
foil, fituation and productions of thefe parts, for 
feveral day's journey, differ very little from the 
Northern diPcricls of Georgia, already recited, when 
on the furvey of the New Purchafe, I apprehend it 
needlefs to enter again into a detail of particulars, 
ilnce it would produce but little more than a recapi- 
tulation of that journey. 
Early in the evening of the 27th we arrived at 
the Flat-rock, where we lodged. This is a com- 
mon rendezvous or camping place for traders and 
Indians. It is an expanfive clean flat or horizontal 
rock, but a little above the fur face of (he ground, 
and near the banks of a delightful rivulet of excel- 
lent water, which is one of the head branches of Great 
Ogeche : in the loofe rich foil verging round this 
rock, grew feveral very curious herbaceous plants, 
particularly one of fmgular elegance and beauty, 
which I take to be a fpecies of Ipomea (Ipomea, 
caule erecro, ramofo, tripedali, fob radicalibus, pin- 
natifidis,' linear ibus, humi-ftratis, florib. incarnatis 
Intus maculis coccineis adfperfo.) It grows creel, 
three feet high, with a ftrong Item, which is deco- 
rated with plumed or pinnatifid linear leaves, 
fomewhat refem})ling thofe of the Delphinium or 
Ipomea 
