TRAVELS IN 
Next day we travelled about twenty miles far- 
ther, crofting two confiderable creeks named Great 
and Little Tobofochte ; and at evening encamped 
dole by a beautiful large brook called Sv/eet Water, 
the glitteiing waving flood pairing along actively 
over a bed of pebbles and gravel. The territory 
through which we pa&d from the banks of the 
Oakmulge to this place, exhibited a delightful di- 
versified rural fcene, and promifes a happy, fruitful 
and falubrious region, when cultivated by induftri- 
ous inhabitants ; generally ridges of low fwelling 
hills and plains fupporting grand forefts, vaft Cane 
meadows, fayannas and verdant lawns. 
I obferved bar© a very fmgular and beautiful 
fhrub, which I fuppofe is a fpecies of Hydrangia 
(H. quercifolia). It grows in coppices or clumps near 
or on the banks of rivers and creeks 5 many ftems 
nfually arife from a root, fpreading itfelf greatly on 
all fides by fuckers or offsets ; the ftems grow five 
or fix feet high, declining or diverging from each 
other, and are covered with feveral barks or rinds 
the Laft of which being of a cinereous dirt. coloui 
and very thin, at a certain age of the ftems or fhoots 
cracks "through to the next bark, and is peeled ol 
by the winds, difcovering the under, fmooth, darl 
teddifli brown bark, which alfo cracks and peels oij 
the next year, in like manner as the former ; thu 
every year forming a new bark ; the ftems divid' 
regularly or oppofiteiy, though the branches an 
crooked or wreathe about horizontally, and .thefti 
again divide, forming others which terminate wit ] 
large heavy panicles or thyrfi of flowers; bi 
thefe flowers are of two kinds : the numerous pai 
tial fpikes which compofe the panicles and confi 
of a multitude of very fmall fruitful flowers^ ter- 
miliar 
