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grandiflora). This was the fecret nuptial cham- 
ber. Dancing, mu fie and feafting continued the 
forepart of the night, and towards morning the 
happy couple privately withdrew, and continued 
alone all the next clay, no one prefuming to ap- 
proach the facred, myfterious thalame® 
The trader obliged me with his company on a 
vifit to the Alabama, an Indian town at the con- 
fluence of the two fine rivers, the Tallapoofe and 
Coofau, which here refign their names to the 
great Alabama, where are to be feen traces of 
the ancient French fortrefs, Thouloufe ; here are 
yet lying, half buried in the earth, a few pieces 
of ordnance, four and fix pounders. I obferved, 
in a very thriving condition, two or three very 
large apple trees, planted here by the French* 
This is, perhaps, one of the moffc eligible fitu» 
ations for a City in the world ; a level plain be- 
tween the conflux of two majeftic rivers, which 
are exa&ly of equal magnitude in appearance, 
each navigable for veil els and perriauguas at 
lead five hundred miles above it, and fpreading 
their numerous branches over the moil; fertile 
and delightful regions, many hundred miles be- 
fore we reach their fources in the Apalachean 
mountains. 
Stayed all night at Alabama, where we had a 
grand entertainment at the public fquar®, with 
mafic and dancing, and returned next day to 
Mucclaffe ; where being informed of a company 
of traders about fetting off from Tuckabatche for 
Augufta, I made a vifit to that town to know the 
truth of it, but on my arrival there they were 
gone ; but being informed of another caravan 
who were to ftart from the Otiaffe town in two 
or 
