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to the ftrawberry plains to regale on the fragrant* 
delicious fruit* welcomed by communities of the 
iplendid meleagris, the capricious roe-buck, and 
all the free and happy tribes which poflefs and in- 
habit thofe prolific fields, who appeared to invite 
and joined with me in the participation of the boun- 
tiful repafl prefented to us from the lap of nature. 
I mounted again, and followed the trading path 
about a quarter of a mile through the fields, then 
gently afcended the green beds of the hills, and en- 
tered the forefls, being a point of a chain of hills 
projecting into the green vale or low lands of the 
rivers. This foreft continued about a mile, the 
furface of the land level but rough, being covered 
with ftones or fragments of rocks, and very large, 
fmooth pebbles of various fhapes and fizes, fome of 
ten or fifteen pounds weight : I obferved on each 
fide of the road many vaft heaps of thefe Hones, 
Indian graves undoubtedly *. 
After I left the graves, the ample vale foon of- 
fered on my right hand, through the tall foreft' 
trees, charming views, which exhibited a pleating 
contrail, immediately out of the gloomy fhades 
and fcenes of death, into expanfive, lucid, green, 
flowery fields, expanding between retiring hills, 
and turfy eminences, the rapid Tanafe gliding 
through, as a vaft ferpent rufhing after his prey. 
My winding path now leads me again over the 
green fields into the meadows, fometimes vifiting 
* At this place was fought a bloody and decifive battle between thefe In- 
dians and the Carolinians, under the condudt of general Middleton, when a 
great number of Cherokee warriors were flain, which ihook their power, 
terrified and humbled them, infomuch that they deferted moll of their fet- 
tlements in the low countries, and betook themfelves to the mountains as 
lefs acceffible to the regular forces of the white people. 
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