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ferrugineum, white- robed philadelphus inodorus, 
and cerulean malva ; but nothing in vegetable na- 
ture was more pleafmg than the odoriferous pancra- 
tium fluitans, which almoft alone poffeffes the little 
rocky iilets which juft appear above the water. 
The preparatory bufinefs of the furveyors being 
now accomplifhed, Mr. J. M c Intolh, yet anxious 
for travelling, and defirous to accompany me on this 
tour, joined with me the caravan, confifting of fur- 
veyors, aftronomers, artifans, chain-carriers, mark- 
ers, guides, and hunters, belides a very refpetftable 
number of gentlemen, who joined us, in order to 
fpeculate in the lands, together with ten or twelve 
Indians, altogether to the number of eighty or 
ninety men, all or moft of us well mounted on 
horfeback, befides twenty or thirty pack-horfes, 
loaded with provifions, tents, and camp equipage. 
The fummer feafon now rapidly advancing, the 
air at mid-day, about this region, was infufferably 
hot and fultry. We fat off from Augufta, early in 
the morning, for the Great Buffalo Lick, on the 
Great Ridge, which feparates the waters of the Sa- 
vanna and Alatamaha, about eighty miles diftant 
from Augufta. At this Lick the furveyors were to 
feparate themfelves, and form three companies, 
to proceed on different routes. On the evening of 
the fecond day's journey, we arrived at a fmall vil- 
lage on Little River, a branch of the Savanna : this 
village, called Wrightlborough, was founded by 
Jof. Mattock, efq., of the fe£t called quakers. This 
public lpirited man having obtained for himfelf 
and his followers a diftricft, comprehending up- 
wards of forty thoufand acres of land, gave the new 
town this name, in honour of fir James Wright, 
then governor of Georgia, who greatly promoted 
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