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landed as near the brink of this high bank as poft 
fible with fafety, and laid by the fide of each other, 
are rolled off and precipitated down the bank into 
the river, where being formed into rafts, they are 
conduced by flaves down to Savanna, about fifty 
miles below this place. 
Having contemplated thefe fcenes of art and in- 
duftry, my venerable hoft 3 in company with his fon, 
conduced me to the neat habitation, which is fitu- 
ated in a fpacious airy foreft, a little diftance from 
the river bank, commanding a comprehenfive and 
varied profpedt ; an extenfive reach of the river in 
front, on the right hand a fpacious lawn or favan- 
na ; on the left the timber yard ; the vaft fertile 
low lands and forefts on the river upwards; and the 
plantations adjoining. A cool evening arrived after 
a fultry day. As we approach the door, conduced 
by the young man, his lovely bride arrayed in na- 
tive innocence and becoming modefty, with an air 
and fmile of grace and benignity, meets and falutes 
us ! what a Venus ! what an Adonis ! faid I in filent 
tranfport ; every action and feature feem to re- 
veal the celeftial endowments of the mind : though 
a native fprightlinefs and fenfibility appear, yet 
virtue and difcretion diredt and rule. The drefs of 
this beauteous fylvan queen was plain but clean, 
neat and elegant, all of cotton, and of her own 
fpinning and weaving. 
Next morning early I fat forward profecuting 
my tour. I purfued the high road leading from 
Savanna to Augufta for the diftance of one hundred 
miles or more, and then recrofted the river at Sil- 
ver Bluff, a pleafant villa, the property and feat of 
G» Golphin, efquire, a gentleman of very diftin- 
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