TRAVELS IN’ 
Next day we fet off on our return to the lower 
trading- houfe, propofing to encamp at a favanna^ 
about twelve miles diftance from this, where we 
were to halt again and ftay a day or two, in order 
to colled!; together another parry of hordes, which 
had been ftationed about that range. The young 
wild dories often breaking from the company, ren- 
dered our progrefs How and troublefome ; we how- 
ever arrived at the appointed place long before 
night. 
I had an opportunity this day of collecting a va- 
riety of fpecimens and feeds of vegetables, fome of 
which appeared new to me, particularly Soph ora, 
Ciftus, Tradefcantia, Hypoxis, Iatropa, Gerardia, 
Pedicularis, Mirnofa fenfitiva, Helonias, Melan- 
thium, Lilium, Aletris, Agave, Cadlus, Zamia, 
Empetrum, Erythryna, Echium, &c. 
Next day, the people being again engaged in 
their bufmefs of ranging the forefts and plains, in 
fearch of their horfes, I accompanied them, and in 
our rambles we again vifited the great favanna and 
lake, called the Long Pond : the lake is nearly in 
the middle of the fpacious lawn, of an oblong form ; 
above two miles wide and feven in length ; one end 
approaching the high green banks adjoining the fo- 
refts, where there is an enchanting grove and grot- 
to of pellucid waters, inhabited with multitudes of 
fifh, continually afcending and defcending through 
the clean, white rocks. Hoping from the green 
verged ihore, by gradual Heps, from fmooth. Hat 
pavements waftied by the fwelling undulations of 
the waters. 
Arrived in the evening at camp, where we found 
the reft of our companions bufiiy employed in fe- 
curing 
