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•-torium, Sylphium, Rudbeckia, Gerardia, Afclepi- 
as, Agave Virginica, Eryngiuni,Thapfia, Euphorbia, 
Folymnia, &c. 
In the courfe of this day's journey we croffed 
two confiderable rivulets, running fwiftly over rocky 
beds. There is fome very good land on the gra- 
dual defcents of the ridges and their bottoms bor- 
dering on creeks, and very extenfive gralTy favan- 
nas and cane meadows always in view on one hand,, 
or ilfy other. At evening we came to camp on the 
banks of a beautiful creek, a branch of Great Oge- 
che, called Rocky Comfort, where we found ex- 
cellent! accommodations, here being pleafant graflfy 
( en plains to fpread our beds upon, environed 
wiih e:xtenfive cane meadows, affording the Jaeft of 
food f or our quadrupeds. 
The :next day's journey led us over a level dif- 
trier. ; t he land generally very fertile and of a good 
quality for agriculture, the vegetable furface being 
of a dark, loofe, rich mould, on a ftratum of ft iff 
leddifti b vown clay. Crofting feveral confiderable 
creeks, b ranches of the Ocone, North branch of the 
Alatama ha, at evening, July ift, encamped on the 
banks of the Ocone, in a delightful grove of foreft 
trees, co nfifting of Oak, Aft*, Mulberry , Hiccory, 
Black W |lnut, Elm, Saffafras, Gleciitfia, &c. This 
ftcurimim * grove was an appendage of the high fb- 
refts we h %i paffed through, and projected into an 
extenfive, preen, open, level plain, confifting of 
old Indian fields and plantations, being the rich low 
lands of tb e river, and ftretching along its banks 
upwards to a very great diftance, charmingly di- 
verfified and decorated with detached groves and 
clumps of ya nous trees and ftirubs, and indented 
on its verge I >y advancing and retreating promon- 
tories of the hi t h land, 
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