394 TRAVELS IN 
CHAR VI. 
July 13th we left the Apalachucla town, and 
three days journey brought us to Talaife, a town 
on the Tallapoofe river, the North Eaft great 
branch of the Alabama or Mobile river ; having 
palled over a vaft level plain country of expanfive 
favannas, groves, Cane fwamps and open Pine fo- 
refts, watered by innumerable rivulets and brooks, 
tributary to Apalachucla and Mobile. We now 
altered our courfe, turning to the left hand, South « 
erly, and defcending near the river banks, continu* 
ally in fight of the Indian plantations and commons 
adjacent to their towns. Palled by Otaffe, an an* 
cient famous Mufcogulge town. The next fettle- 
ment we came to was Cooloine, where we flayed 
two days, and having letters for Mr. Germany, the 
principal trader of Coolome, I meant to confult 
with him in matters relative to my affairs and future 
proceedings. 
Here are very extenfive old fields, the abandoned 
plantations and commons of the old town, on the 
Eaft fide of the river ; but the fettlement is remov- 
ed, and the new town now (lands on the oppofite 
fhore, in a charming fruitful plain, under an ele- 
vated ridge of hills, the fwelling beds or bafes of 
which are covered with a pleafing verdure of grafs \ 
but the laft afcent is fleeper, and towards the fum- 
mit difcovers fheiving rocky cliffs, which appear to 
be continually fplittin^ and burfting to pieces, fcat- 
tering their thin exfoliations over the tops of the 
grafty knolls beneath. The plain is narrow where 
