NORTH AMERICA* 
compenfated for our difficulties and delays. 1 ob- 
ferved the great aconitum napellus, delphinium 
peregrinum, the carminative angelica lucida *, and 
cerulean malva. 
We at length happily accompli fhed our line, ar- 
riving at the little river, where our hunters bring- 
ing in plenty of venifon and turkeys, we had a plen- 
tiful feaft at fupper. Next morning we marked the 
corner tree, at the confluence of Little River and the 
Savanna; and, foon after, the Indians amicably 
took leave of us, returning home to their towns. 
The rocks and foflils, which conftitute the hills 
of this middle region, are of various fpecies, 
as, quartfum, ferrurn, cos, filex, glarea, arena, 
ochra, ftaladtites, faxum, mica, &c. I faw no 
figns of marble, plafter, or lime-ftone; yet there 
are, near Augufta, in the forefts, great piles of a 
porous friable white rock, in large and nearly hori- 
zontal maffes, which feerns to be an heterogeneous 
Concrete, confiding of pulverized fea fhells, with 
a fmall proportion of fand ; it is foft, and eafily 
wrought into any form, yet of fufficient confidence 
for conftrudting any building. 
As for the animal produ6lions, . they are the fame 
which originally inhabited this part of North Ame- 
rica, except fuch as have been affrighted away fmce 
the invafion of the Europeans. The buffalo (urus) 
once lb very numerous, is not at this day to be feen 
in this part of the country ; there are but few elks, and 
thofe only in the Apalachian mountains. The dreaded 
and formidable rattle-fnake is yet too common, and 
a variety of other ferpents abound, particularly that 
admirable creature the glafs-fnake : I faw a very 
* Called nondo in Virginia : by the Creek, and Cherokee traders, white 
joot. t 
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