222 TRAVELS IN 
and meadows, little differing from the environs of 
Capola, diverfified with rocky iflets or hommocks 
of dark woodland. 
We next entered a vaft foreft of the mofl (lately 
Pine trees that can be imagined, planted by na- 
ture at a moderate diflance, on a level, grafly plain, 
enamelled with a variety of flowering fhrubs, viz. 
Viola, Ruella infimdibuliforma, Amaryllis ata- 
mafco, Mimofa fenfltiva, Mimofa intfia and many 
others new to me. This fublime foreft continued 
five or fix miles, when we came to dark groves of 
Oaks, Magnolias, Red bays. Mulberries, &c. through 
which proceeding near a mile, we entered open 
fields, and arrived at the town of Talahafochte, on 
the banks of Little St. Juan. 
The river Little St. Juan may, with Angular 
propriety, be termed the pellucid river. The wa- 
ters are the cleared and pureft of any river I ever 
faw, tranfmitting diftindtly the natural form and 
appearance of the objedts moving in the tranfparent 
floods, or repofmg on the fllvery bed, with the finny 
inhabitants lporting in its gently flowing dream. 
The river at the town is about two hundred yards 
over, and fifteen or twenty feet in depth. The 
great fwamp and lake Oaquaphenogaw is faid to be 
its fource, which is about one hundred miles by land 
North of this place ; which would give the river a 
courfe of near two hundred miles from its fource 
to the (e a, to follow its meanders ; as in general 
our rivers, that run any confiderable diftance through 
the country to the fea, by their windings and rov- 
ing about to find a paflage through the ridges and 
heights, at lead double their diftance. 
The Indians and traders fay that this river has no 
branches 
