TRAVELS IN 1 
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upon fliort petioles ; the branches terminate witft 
long, loofe panicles or fpikes of white flowers* 
whofe fegments are five, long and narrow. 
I arofe early next morning and continued my 
journey for Fort James. This day’s progrefs was 
agreeably entertaining, from the novelty and vari- 
ety of objects and views : the wild country now al- 
molt depopulated, vaft forefts, expanfive plains and 
detached groves ; then chains of hills whofe gra- 
velly, dry, barren fummits prefent detached piles of 
rocks, which delude and flatter the hopes and ex- 
pectations of the folitary traveller, full fure of 
hofpitable habitations ; heaps of white, gnawed 
bones of the ancient buffaloe, elk and deer, indis- 
criminately mixed with thofe of men, half grown 
over with mofs, altogether, exhibit fcenes of un- 
cultivated nature, on reflection, perhaps, rather 
dilagreeable to a mind of delicate feelings and fen- 
fibility, fince fome of thefe objects recognize paft 
tranfactions and events, perhaps not altogether re- 
concileable to juflice and humanity. 
How harmonious and fweetly murmur the pur- 
ling rills and fleeting brooks, roving along the 
fhadowy vales, pafTing throgh dark, fubterranean 
caverns, or dafhing over fleep rocky precipices^ 
their cold, humid banks condenfing the volatile va- 
pours, which falling coalefce in cryflalline drops, on 
the leaves and elaftic twigs of the aromatic lhrubs 
and incarnate flowers ! In thefe cool, fequefleredy 
rocky vales, we behold the following celebrated 
beauties of the hills, fragrant Calycanthus, blufh- 
ing Rhododendron ferrugineum, delicate Phila- 
delphus inodorus, which difplays the white wavy 
mantle, with the fky robed Delphinium, perfumed 
Convallaria 
