TRAVELS IN 
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CHAP. II. 
After conferring with gentlemen in Augufta-, 
converfant in Indian affairs, concerning my future 
travels in thofe diftant, unexplored regions, and 
obtaining letters to their agents in the Indian ter- 
ritories, I fet off, proceeding for Fort James Dart- 
mouth, at the confluence of Broad River with 
Savanna, the road leading me near the banks of the 
river for the diftance of near thirty miles, croffing 
two or three of its confiderable branches, befides 
rivulets and fmaller brooks. The furface of the 
land uneven, by means of ridges or chains of fwell- 
ing hills and correfponding vales, with level downs 5 
the foil a loofe, grayifh-brown loamy mould on the 
hills, but darker and more cohefive and humid in the 
vales and downs ; this fuperficial, vegetative earth, 
covers a deep ftratum of very tenacious yellowifh 
clay : the downs afford grafs and various herbage ; 
the vales and hills, forefl trees and fhrubs of various 
tribes, i. e. Quercus tindtoria, Q^alba^ rubra, Q. 
lobata,Acer rubrum, A. Saccharinum, A.glaucum, 
Morus rubra, Gleditfia triacanthus, Juglans hickory, 
various fpecies, Quercus phillos, Quer. dentata, f. 
hemifpherica, Quercus aquatica, or Maryland 
Water Oak, Ulmus fylvatica, Liriodendron, Li- 
quid-amber, Diofpyros, Cornus Florida, Prunusln- 
dica, Prunus padus and AEfculus pavia ; and, near 
water courfes in the vales, Stewartia malachoden- 
dron, Halefia, ./Efcuius fylvatica, Styrax, Carpinus, 
Magnolia acuminata, Mag. tripetala, Mag. auri- 
culata. Azalea, &c. The rich humid lands in the 
vales bordering on creeks and bafes of the hills, 
likewife produce various trees, fhrubs and plants, 
as Cercis,Corylus, Ptefea, Evonimus, Philadelphus 
