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large and beautiful one, a little diftance from on? 
camp. The alligator* a fpecies of crocodile, abounds 
in the rivers and^fwarftps, near the fea coaft, but is 
not to be feen above Augufta. Bears, tygers** 
wolves, and wild cats (felis cauda truncata) are 
numerous enough : and there is a very great variety 
of papilio and phalena, many of which are admit J 
ably beautiful, as well as other infects of infinite 
variety. 
The furveyots having completed their obferva* 
tions, we fat off next day on our return to Augufta* 
talcing our route generally through the low lands 
on the banks of the Savanna. We croffed Broad 
River, at a newly fettled plantation, near its conflu- 
ence with the Savanna. On my arrival at Augufta, 
finding mylelf a little fatigued, I (laid there a day 
or two, and then fat off again for Savanna, the ca- 
pital, where we arrived in good health. 
Having, in this journey, met with extraordinary 
fuccefs, not only in the enjoyment of an uninter- 
rupted ftate of good health* and efcaping ill acci- 
dents, incident to fuch excurfions, through unin- 
habited wilderneffes, and an Indian frontier, but alfo 
in making a very extenfive collection of new dis- 
coveries of natural productions ; on the recollection 
of fo many and great favours and bleffmgs, I now, 
with a high fenfe of gratitude, prefume to offer up 
my fmcere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and 
Preferver. 
* This creature is called, in Pennfylvania and the northern States, panther j 
hut in Carolina and the fouthern States, is called tyger ; it is very ftrong, 
much larger than any dog, of a yellowifh brown, or clay colour, having a 
very long tail : it is a mifchievous animal, and preys on calves, young 
colts, &e c 
C HAP. 
