NORTH AMERICA, 
95 
C HAP. IV. 
Having refted myfelf a few days* and by ranging 
about the neighbouring plains and groves* furround- 
ing this pleafant place* pretty well recovered my 
ftrength and fpirits* I began to think of planning my 
future excurfions* at a diftance round about this 
centre. I found* from frequent conferences with Mr, 
M c Latche* that I might with fafety extend my 
journeys every way* and with prudence* even into 
the towns and fettlements of the Indians* as they 
were perfectly reconciled to us* and fmcerely wilhed 
for the renewal of our trade. 
There were three trading-houfes to be eftablifhed 
this funimer, each of which had its fupplies from 
the ftore on St. Juan* where I now had my resi- 
dence* and in which the produce or returns were 
to centre annually, in order to be flipped for Sa- 
vanna or Sunbury, and from thence to Europe, 
One of thefe trading-houfes was to be fixed 
about fixty miles higher up the river, from this place* 
by the name of Spalding’s upper ftore ; a fecond at 
Alachua, about fifty miles weft from the river St, 
Juan; and a third at Talahafochte, a confiderable 
town of the Siminoles, on the river Little St. Juan* 
near the bay of Apalachi, about one hundred and 
twenty miles diftance. Each of thefe places I de- 
figned to vifit* before the return of the veftel to 
Frederica in the autumn* that I might avail my- 
felf of an opportunity fo favourable for tranfport- 
ing my collections fo far on their way towards 
Charlefton. 
The 
