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torium, Sylphium, Rudbeckia, Gerardia, Afclepias, 
Agave Virginica, Eryngium, Thapfia, Euphorbia, 
Polymnia, &c. 
In the courfe of this day’s journey we croffed 
two confiderable rivulets, running fwifdy over rocky 
beds. There is fome very good land on the gra- 
dual defcents of the ridges and their bottoms bor- 
dering on creeks, and very extenfive graffy favan- 
nas and cane meadows always in view on one hand 
or the other. At evening we came to camp on the 
banks of a beautiful creek, a branch of Great Oge- 
che, called Rocky Comfort, where we found ex- 
cellent accommodations, here being pleafant graf- 
fy open plains to fpread our beds upon, environed 
with extenfive cane meadows, affording the belt of 
food for our quadrupeds. 
The next day’s journey led us over a level dif- 
triffb ; the land generally very fertile and of a good 
quality for agriculture, the vegetable furface being 
of a dark, loofe, rich mould, on a ffratum of ftiff 
reddiih brown clay. Croffmg feveral confiderable 
creeks, branches of the Ocone, North branch of the 
Alatamaha, at evening, July iff, encamped on the 
banks of the Ocone, in a delightful grove of foreft 
trees, confifting of Oak, Alh, Mulberry, "Hiccory, 
Black Walnut, Elm, Saffafras, GJeditfia, &c. This 
flouriftiing grove was an appendage of the high fo- 
refts we had paffed through, and projected into an 
extenfive, green, open, level plain, confifting of 
old Indian fields and plantations, being the rich low 
lands of the river, and ftretching along its banks 
upwards to a very great diftance, charmingly di- 
verfified and decorated with detached groves and 
clumps of various trees and fhrubs, and indented 
on its, verge by advancing and retreating promon- 
tories of the high land, 
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