I? ORTH' AMERICA® 
CHAP. X 
Having now completed my collections in: 
Georgia, I took leave o r theie Southern, regions, 
proceeding on my return to Charlefton. Left 
Savanna in the evening, in confequence of a 
p telling invitation from the honourable Jonathan 
Bryan, Efq., who was returning from the capital, 
to his villa, about eight miles up Savanna river ; 
a very delightful fituation, where are fpacious 
gardens, furnithed with a variety of fruit trees 
and flowering fhrubs. Obferved in a low wet 
place at the corner of the garden, the Ado (Arum 
efculentum) ; this plant is much cultivated in 
the maritime parts of Georgia and Florida, for 
the fake of its large Turnip-like root, which when 
boiled or roafted, is excellent food, and taftes 
like the Yam ; the leaves of this magnificent 
plant are very large, and of a beautiful green 
colour, the fpatha large and circulated, the fpa- 
dix terminates with a very long fubulated tongue^ 
naked and perfectly white : perhaps this may be 
the Arum Colocafia. They have likewife another 
fpecies of the efculent Arum, called Tannier, 
which is a large and beautiful plant, and much 
cultivated and efteemed for food, particularly by 
the Negroes® 
At night, boon after our arrival, feveral of his 
fervants came home with horfe loads of wild pi- 
geons (Columba migratoria), which it feems they 
had collected in a fliort fpace of time at a neigh- 
bouring Bay fvvamp : they take them by torch 
light : the birds have particular roofting places, 
where they affociate in incredible multitudes at 
evening, on low trees and bufhes, in hommocks 
or higher knolls in the interior parts of vaft 
H h % fwamps. 
