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off to the right hand, and encamped on a consi- 
derable branch of it. At this place we continued 
aimoff a whole day, conftituting Surveyors and 
aftronomers, who were to take the courfe, diftance, 
and obfervations on Broad River, and from thence 
down to its confluence with the Savanna. 
The Great Ridge con Ails of a continued high 
foreft; the foil fertile, and broken into moderately 
elevated hills, by the many rivulets which have 
their Sources in it. The heights and precipices 
abound in rock and ftone. The fo reft trees and 
other vegetable productions are the fame as already 
mentioned about Little River: I obferved hale- 
Aa, ftyrax, tefculus pavia, aefc. fylvatica, robinia 
hifpida, magnolia acuminata, mag. tripetala, and 
fome very curious new Shrubs and plants, particu- 
larly the phyfic-nut, or Indian olive. The items 
arife many from a root, two or three feet high 5 
the leaves fit oppofite, on very Short petioles ; they 
are broad, lanceolate, entire, and undulated, hav- 
ing Smooth Surfaces of a deep green colour. From 
the bofom of each leaf is produced a Angle oval 
drupe, Handing ere£t, on long Slender ftems ; it 
has a large kernel, and thin pulp. The fruit is 
yellow when ripe, and about the Size of an olive. 
The Indians, w T hen they go in purfuit of deer, carry 
this fruit with them, fuppofmg that it has the 
power of charming or drawing that creature to 
them ; from whence, with the traders, it has ob- 
tained the name of the phyfic-nut, which means, 
with them, charming, conjuring, or fafcinating. 
malva fcandens, filix fcandens, perhaps a ipecies 
of trichomanes ; the leaves are pal mated, or ra- 
diated; it climbs and roves about, on Shrubs, in mo iff 
ground. A very Angular and elegant plant, of an 
unknown 
