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TRAVELS IN 
be refigned and prepare to meet them. As footi 
as I faw them diftincTily a mile or two off, I im- 
mediately alighted to reft, and give breath to my 
horfe, intending to attempt my fafety by flight, 
if upon near approach they fhould betray hoftile 
defigns. Thus prepared, when we drew' near to 
each other, I mounted and rode brifkly up ; and 
though armed with clubs, axes and hoes, they 
opened to right and left, and let me pafs peace- 
ably. Their chief informed me whom they be- 
longed to, and faid they were going to man a new 
quarter at the Weft end of the bay ; I however 
kept a lharp eye about me, apprehending that 
this might poflibly have been an advanced divi- 
fion, and their intentions were to ambufcade and 
furround me 5 but they kept on quietly, and I 
was no more alarmed by them. After noon, I 
crofted the fwafti at the eaft end of the bay, and 
in the evening got to good quarters. Next morn- 
ing early I fat off again, and foon crofted Little 
River at the boundary ; which is on the line that 
feparates North and South Carolina: in an old 
field, on the banks of this river, a little diftance 
from the public houfe, ftands a fmgle tree of the 
Magnolia grandiflora, which is faid to be the 
moft northern fettlement of that tree. Paffed this 
day over expanfive favannas, charmingly deco- 
rated with late autumnal flowers, as Helianthus, 
Rudbeckia, Silphium, Solidago, Helenium, Ser- 
ratula, Cacalia, After, Lilium Martagon ? Gen- 
tiana, cserulea, Chironia, Gentiana faponaria, 
Afclepias coccinea, Hypericum, Rhexia pill- 
cherrima, &c. &c, 
Obferved likewife in thefe Savannas abundance 
of the ludicrous Dionsea mufcipula (Dionsea, 
Ellis epis, ad Linnseum, miraculum naturae, folia 
- biloba ? 
