NORTH AMERICA* 
3 2 9 
The evening ftill and calm, all filent and peace- 
able, a vivifying gentle breeze continually wafted 
from the fragrant ftrawberry fields, and aromatic 
Calycanthean groves on the furrounding heights j 
the wary moor fowl thundering in the diftant echo- 
ing hills : how the groves and hills ring with the 
fhrill perpetual voice of the whip-poor-will 1 
Abandoned as my fituation now was, yet thank 
heaven many objefls met together at this time, and 
confpired to conciliate, and in home degree com- 
pofe my mind, heretofore fo-mewhat dejeCted and 
tinharmonized : all alone in a wild Indian .country, 
a thoufand miles from my native land, and a vaft 
distance from any fettlements of white people. It 
is true, here v/ere fome of my own colour, yet they 
were ftr angers; and though friendly and hofpitable, 
their manners and cufloms of living fo different 
from what I had been accuftomed to, adminiflered 
but little to my confolation : fome hundred miles 
yet to travel ; the fayage vindictive inhabitants late- 
ly ill-treated by the frontier Virginians ; blood be- 
ing fpilt between them and the injury not yet wiped 
away by formal treaty : the Cherokees extreme- 
ly jealous of white people travelling about their 
mountains, efpecialiy if they fhould be feen peep- 
ing in among!! the rocks, or digging up their 
earth. 
The vale of Keowe is feven or eight miles in ex- 
tent, that is, from the little town of Kuhage* about 
a mile above, thence down the river fix or feven 
miles, where a high ridge of hills on each fide of 
the river almoft terminates the vale, but opens again 
below the narrow ridge, and continues ten or twelve 
* $ygar Town. 
miles 
