TRAVELS IN 
5 $ 
horfe’s feet. I obferved a great variety cf fhelL 
fifh, as Echinitis, Corallinus, Patella, Medufa, 
Buccina, Concha venerea, Anris marina. Cancer, 
Squilla, &c. fome alive, and others dead, having 
been caft upon the beach by the feas, in times of 
temped, where they became a prey to fea fowl, 
and other maritime animals, or periihed by the heat 
of the fan and burning fands. At length I doubled 
the utmoft fouth point of St. Simon’s, which forms 
the north cape of the fouth channel of the great 
river Alatamaha. The found, juft within this cape, 
forms an excellent bay, or cove, on the fouth end 
of the iftand, on the oppoftte fide of which I be- 
held a houfe and farm, where I foon arrived. This 
delightful habitation was fituated in the midft of a 
fpacious grove of Live Oaks and Palms, near the 
ftrand of the bay, commanding a view of the inlet. 
A cool area furrounded the low but convenient 
buildings, from whence, through the groves, was 
.a fpacious avenue into the iftand, terminated by a 
large favanna; each fide of the avenue was lined 
with bee-hives, to the number of fifty or fixty ; 
they feemed to be w r ell peopled, and exhibited a 
lively image of a colony that has attained to a ftate 
of power and affluence, by the prabtice of virtue 
and induftry. 
When I approached the houfe, the good man, 
who was reclining on a bear- thin, fpread under the 
fhade of a Live Oak, fmoking his pipe, rofe and 
fainted me: cc Welcome, ftranger, I am indulg- 
ing the rational dictates of nature, taking a little 
reft, having juft come in from the chace and fifh- 
ing, ” After fome converfation and reft, his fer- 
vant brought a bowl of honey and water, a very 
refreftiing and agreeable liquor, of which I drank. 
On rifing to take my departure, he objected, and 
requefted 
