TRAVELS IN 
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CHAP. IIL 
I sat off early in the morning for the Indian 
trading-houfe, in the river St. Mary, and took the 
road up the N. E. fide of the Alatamaha to Fort- 
Barrington. I pa (Ted through a well inhabited dif- 
tri<fl, madly rice plantations, on the waters of Cat- 
head creek, a branch of the Alatamaha. On draw- 
ing near the fort, I was greatly delighted at the 
appearance of two new beautiful fhrubs, in all their 
blooming graces. One of them appeared to be a 
fpecies of Gordonia*, but the flowers are larger, 
and more fragrant than thofe of the Gordonia Laf- 
canthusj and are feflile ; the feed veffel is alfo very 
different. The other w r as equally diftinguifhed for 
beauty and Angularity; it grows twelve or fifteen 
feet high, the branches afcendant and oppoflte, and 
terminate with large panicles of pale blue tubular 
flowers, fpecked on the infide with crimfon ; but, 
what is Angular, thefe panicles are ornamented 
with a number of ovate large brae tern, as white, and 
like Ane paper, their tops and verges flamed with 
a rofe red, which, at a little diftance, has the ap- 
pearance of clufters of rofes, at the extremities of 
the limbs : the flowers are of the Cl. Pentandria 
monogynia; the leaves are nearly ovate, pointed 
and petioled. Handing oppoAte to one another on 
the branches. 
After fifteen miles riding, I arrived at the ferry, 
which is near the Ate of the fort. Here is a confi- 
derable height and bluff on the river, and evident 
* Franklinia Alatahama. 
veftiges 
