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me fafe over. In thiee days more eafy travelling, 
I croffed Winy aw bay, juft below George town ; 
and in two days more, got to the Welt end of 
Long bay, where I lodged at a large Indigo planta- 
tion. Sat off early next morning, and after croffing 
over the fand ridges, which afford little elfe but 
Quercus pumila, Myrica cerifera, CaiTine, Side- 
roxylon and Andromeda entangled with various fpe- 
cies of Smilax, got on the bay, which is a hard 
fand beach, expofed for the diftance of fifteen miles 
to the continual lam of the Atlantic ocean. At 
about low water mark, are cliffs of rocks of the 
helmintholitus, being a very firm concrete or petri- 
faction, confining of various kinds of feaihells, 
fine fand and pulverized {hells : there is a reef of 
thefe rocks, thirty or forty yards farther out than 
low water mark, which lift their rugged backs 
above water, and brave the continual ftrokes of the 
waves, which, however, aiTifted by the conftant 
friction of the fands, make continual inroads upon 
them, and bore them into holes and cavities, when 
tempeftuous feas rend them to pieces, fcattering the 
fragments over the fandy more. It is pleafant riding 
on this clean hard fand, paved with {hells of various 
colours. 
Obferved a number of perfons coming up a 
head, whom I foon perceived to be a parry of 
Negroes. I had every reafon to dread the confe 
quence ; for this being a defolate place, I was by 
this time feveral miles from any houfe or planta- 
tion, and had reafon to apprehend this to be a 
predatory band of Negroes ; people being fre- 
quently attacked, robbed, and fometimes mur- 
dered by them at this place. I was unarmed, 
alone, and my horfe tired ; thus fituated every 
way in their power, I had no alternative but to 
