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C HAP. V, 
Being defirous of continuing my travels and ob- 
fervations higher up the river, and having an invi- 
tation from a gentleman who was agent for, and 
refident at, a large plantation, the property of an 
Englifh gentleman, about fixty miles higher up, I 
refolved to purfue my refearches to that place ; and 
having engaged in my fervice a young Indian, ne- 
phew to the White Captain, he agreed to affift me 
in working my velfel up as high as a certain bluff, 
where I was, by agreement, to land him, on the 
~W eft or Indian fhore, whence he defigned to go in 
queft of the camp of the White Trader, his relation* 
Provifions and all neceffaries being procured, 
and the morning pleafant, we went on board and 
Hood up the river. We paffed for feveral miles on 
the left, by iflandc of high fwamp land, exceedingly 
fertile, their banks for a good diftance from the wa- 
ter, much higher than the interior part, and fuffl- 
ciently fo to build upon, and be out of the reach of 
inundations. They confifl of a loofe black mould, 
with a mixture of fand, fhells, and diffolved vege- 
tables. The oppofite Indian coaft is a perpendicu- 
lar bluff, ten or twelve feet high, confuting of a 
black landy earth, mixed with a large proportion of 
fhells, chiefly various fpecies of frefh water cochleae 
and mytuli. Near the river, on this high fhore, 
grew corypha palma, magnolia grand iflora, live 
oak, callicarpa, myrica cerifera, hybifcus fpinifex, 
and the beautiful evergreen lhrub called wild lime 
or tallow nut. This lafl ihrub grows fix or eight 
feet high, many ered items fpring from a root* 
