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it is diuretic and carminative, and efteemed a 
powerful febrifuge, an infufion of its tops is ordi- 
narily drunk at breakfaft, and is of an exceeding 
'pleafant tafte and flavour : when in flower, which is 
the time the inhabitants gather it for prefervation 
and life, it poffeffes a lively aromatic fcent, partak- 
ing of lemon and anifeed. Lodged this night at a 
plantation near the river, and met with civility and 
good entertainment. The man and his three fons 
are famous hunters. I was affured from good au- 
thority that the old gentleman, for his own part, 
kills three hundred deer annually, befides bears* 
tygers, and wolves. 
Next morning early r fat off again, on my return, 
and taking a different path back, for the fake of va- 
riety, though fomewhat farther about and at a 
greater diftance from the banks of the river, ob- 
ferved abundance of the tall blue Sage : it grows 
fix or feven feet high ; many Items arife from one 
root or fource ; thefe {terns are thick, woody and 
quadrangular, the angles obtufe : the narrow lan- 
ceolate and ferrated leaves are placed oppofite, 
and are feflile, lightly embracing the branches, 
which terminate wi[h fpikes of large flowers of a ce- 
leitial blue colour. 
Thefe llony gravelly heights produce a variety 
of herbaceous plants, but one in particular I (hall 
mention, ©n account of its lingular beauty-: I be- 
lieve it is a fpecies of Gerardea (Gerardea flammea) ; 
it grows erect, a fingle Item from a root, three or 
four feet in height, branching very regularly from 
about one half its length upwards, forming a cone 
or pyramid, proxufely garnimed with large tubular 
labiated fcarlet or flame coloured flowers, which 
give the plant a very fplendid appearance, even at 
a great 
