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feparate the waters of Savanna river from thofe of 
the Tanafe or greater main branch of the Cherokee 
river. This running rapidly a North- VV eft courfe 
through the mountains, is joined from the North- 
Bail by the Holflein; thence taking a Weil courfe 
yet amongil the mountains, receiving into it from 
either hand many large rivers, leaves the mountains 
immediately after being joined by a large river 
from the Bail, becomes a mighty river by the 
name of Hogehege, thence meanders many hun- 
dred miles through a vail country confiding of 
foreils, meadows, groves, expanfive favannas, fields 
and fwelling hills, moil fertile and delightful, flows 
into the beautiful Ohio, and in conjunction with its 
tranfparent waters, becomes tributary to the fove- 
reign Miffiflipph 
This exalted peak I named mount Magnolia, 
from a new and beautiful fpecies of that celebrated 
family of flowering trees, which here, at the caf- 
cades of Falling Creek, grows in a high degree of 
perfection : I had, indeed noticed, this curious tree 
feveral times before, particularly on the high ridges 
betwixt Sinica and Keowe, and on afcending the 
firft mountain after leaving: Keowe, when I ob- 
ferved it in flower, but here it Aourifhes and com- 
mands our attention. 
This tree, * or perhaps rather ihrub, rifes 
eighteen to thirty feet in height ; there are ufually 
many flems from a root or fource, which, lean a 
little, or flightly diverge from each other, in this 
refpecl imitating the Magnolia tripetala 3 the 
crooked wreathing branches arifing and fubdivinpf 
from the main Bern without order or uniformity,, 
^ Magnolia auriculata 
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