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when I loft my way ; but coming up to a fence. I 
faw a glimmering light, which conducted me to a 
houfe, where j flayed all night, and met with very 
civil entertainment. Early next morning! fat off 
again, in company with the overfeer of the farm 
who piloted me through a large and difficult fwamp, 
when we parted > he in chafe of deer, and I to- 
wards Darian, I rode feveral miles through a 
high foreil of pines, thinly growing on a- level plain, 
which admitted an ample view, and a free circula- 
tion of air, to another fwamp; and eroding a con- 
deferable branch of Sapello river, 1 then came to a 
final! plantation by the fide of another fwamp: the 
people were remarkably civil and hofpitable. The 
man’s name was Mdntofh, a family of the firft co- 
lony eflablifhed in Georgia, under the condudt of 
general Oglethorpe, Was there ever fuch a feene 
of primitive fimplicity, as was here exhibited, fince 
the days of the good king Tammany! The vener- 
able grey headed Caledonian fmilingly meets me 
coming up to his houfe. <c Welcome, ftrangerj 
come in, and red; the air is now very fultry; it 
is a very hot day.” I was there treated with feme 
excellent venifon, and here found friendly and fecure 
fhelter from • a tremendous thunder dorm, whi 
came up from the. N. W. and foon after my arri 
val began to difeharge its fury all arour 
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g to the door to obferve the progrefs and di- 
rection of the temped, the fulgour. and rapidity of 
the dreams of lightning, paffing from cloud to cloud, 
and from the clouds to the earth, exhibited a very 
awful feene ; when indantly the lightning, as it 
were, opening a fiery chasm in the black cloud, 
darted with inconceivable rapidity on the trunk of a 
large pine tree, that flood thirty or forty yards from 
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nd let it in a blaze. 
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he flame indantly 
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