NORTI? AMERICA. 
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CHAP. X. 
Having now completed my collections In Geor- 
gia, I took leave of thefe Southern regions, pro- 
ceeding on my return to Charlefton. Left Savanna 
in the evening, in conference of a prefling invita- 
tion from the honourable Jonathan Bryan, Efq. who 
was returning from the capital, to his villa, about 
eight miles up Savanna river ; a very delightful fitu- 
ation, where are fpacious gardens, furniflied with 
a variety of fruit trees and flowering fhrubs. Ob- 
ferved in a low wet place at the corner of the gar- 
den, the Ado (Arum efculentum) ; this plant is 
much cultivated in the maritime parts of Georgia 
and Florida, for the fake of its large Turnip-like 
root, which when boiled or roafted, is excellent 
food, and taftes like the Yam ; the leaves of this 
magnificent plant are very large, and of a beautiful 
green colour, the fpatha large and circulated, the 
Ipadix terminates with a very long fubulated tongue, 
naked and perfectly white : perhaps this may be the 
Arum Colocafia. They have likewife another fpe- 
cies of the efculent Arum, called Tannier, which 
is a large and beautiful plant, and much cultivated 
and elleemed for food, particularly by the Negroes. 
At night, foon after our arrival, feveral of his 
fervants came home with horfe loads of wild pi- 
geons (Columba migratoria), which it feems they 
had collected in a fhort fpace of time at a neigh- 
bouring Bay fvvamp : they take them by torch 
light : the birds have particular roofting places, 
where they affociate in incredible multitudes at 
evening, on low trees and bullies, in hommocks 
®r higher knolls in the interior parts of vafl 
H h 2 fwamps. 
