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1 36 TRAVELS IN 
afternoon being cool and pleafant, and the trees 
very lofty on the higher weftern banks of the river, 
by keeping near that fhore I palled under agreea- 
ble fhades the remaining part of the day. During 
almoft all this day’s voyage, the banks of the river 
on both ffiores were middling high, perpendicular, 
and walked by the brifk current ; the ffiores were 
not lined with the green lawns of floating aquatics, 
and confequently not very commodious reforts or 
harbours for crocodiles ; I therefore was not dis- 
turbed by them, and faw but few, but thofe were 
very large. I however did not like to lodge on 
thofe narrow ridges, inverted by fuch dreary fwamps ; 
and evening approaching, I began to be anxious 
for high land for a camping place. It was quite 
dark before I came up to a bluff, which I had in 
view a long time, over a very extenfive point of 
meadows. I landed however at laft, in the beft man- 
ner I could, at a magnificent foreft of Orange 
groves, Oaks, and Palms. I here, with little labour 
or difficulty, foon colle&ed a fufficient quantity of 
dry wood : there was a pleafant villa of grafs be- 
twixt the grove and the edge of the river bank, 
which afforded a very convenient, open, airy en- 
camping place, under the protection of fome fpread- 
%ng Oaks. 
This was a high perpendicular bluff, fronting 
^lore than one hundred yards on the river, the earth 
black, loofe, and fertile : it is a compofition of river- 
jfhells, fand, &c. At the back of it from the river, were 
open Pine forefts and favannas. I met with a cir- 
cumftance here, that, with fome, may be reckoned 
worthy of mentioning, fmce it regards the monu- 
ments of the ancients. As I have already obferved, 
when I landed it was quite darks and in collecting 
wood 
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