NORTH AMERICA. 
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vefciges of an ancient Indian town may be feen, 
fuch as old extenfive fields, and conical mounds, 
or artificial heaps of earth. I here croffed the ri- 
ver, which is about five hundred yards over, in a 
good large boat, rowed by a Creek Indian, who 
. was married to a white woman ; he feemed an ac- 
tive, civil, and fenfible man. I faw large, tail trees 
of the Nyfia coccmea, fi. Ogeeche, growing on the 
banks of the river. They grow in the water, near 
the fliore. There is no tree that exhibits a more 
defirable appearance than this, in the autumn, 
when the fruit is ripe, and the tree divefled of its 
leaves; Tor. then they look as red as fcarlet, with 
their fruit, which is of that colour aifo. It is of 
the fhape, but larger than the olive, containing an 
agreeable acid juice. The leaves are oblong lan- 
ceolate and entire, fomewhat hoary underneath^ 
their upper fiirfacfe of a full green, and fhining; 
the petioles ihort, pedunculis multitbris. The moil 
northern fettlement of this tree, yet known, is on 
Great Ogeeche, where they are called . Ogeeche 
limes, from their acid fruit being about the fize of 
limes, and their being fometimes ufed in their 
ftead. 
Being fafely landed on the oppofite bank, I 
mounted my horfe, and followed the high road to 
the ferry on St. Me, about fixty miles fouth of the 
Alatamaha, paffing through an uninhabited wilder- 
nefs. The Hidden tranfition from rich cultivated 
fettlements, to high pine forefts, dark and grally 
favannas, forms in my opinion no difagreeablc con- 
traits ; and the new objedts of obfervation in the 
works of nature foon reconcile the furprifed ima- 
gination to the change. As foon as I had loft fight 
of the river, afcending fame fand- hills, I obferved 
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