NORTH AMERICA* 
5 
After refting, and a little recreation for a few 
days in Savanna, and having in the mean time 
purchafed a good horfe, and equipped myfelf for a 
journey fo nth ward, I fat off early in the morning 
for Sun bury, a fea-port town, beautifully fkuated 
on- the main, between Medway and Newport ri- 
vers, about fifteen miles fouth of great Ogee die 
riven The town and harbour are defended from 
the fury of the feas by the north and fouth points 
of St. Helena and South Catharine's iflands ; be- 
tween which is the bar and entrance into the found: 
the harbour is capacious and fafe, and has water 
enough for fhips of great burthen. I arrived here 
in the evening, in company with a gentleman, one 
of the inhabitants, who politely introduced me to 
one of the principal families, where I fupped and 
fpent the evening in a circle of genteel and polite 
ladies and gentlemen. Next day, being defirous of 
vifiting the i (lands, I forded a narrow (hoal, part 
of the found, and landed on one of them, which 
employed me the whole day to explore. The fur- 
face and vegetable mould here is generally a loofe 
fand, not very fertile, except fome fpots bordering 
on the found and inlets, where are found heaps or 
mounds of fea-ihel], either formerly brought there 
by the Indians, who inhabited the iOand, or which 
were perhaps thrown up in ridges, by the beating 
furface of die fea •: pofhhiy both thefe circumftances 
may have contributed to their formation. Thefe 
fea fhellsj through length of time, and the fubtie 
penetrating effedts of the air, which diffolve them 
to earth, render thefe ridges very fertile 3 and, 
when clear of their trees, and cultivated, they 
become profufely productive of aim oft every kind 
©f vegetable. Here are alfo large plantations of 
B 3 ‘ indigo^ 
