TRAVELS IN 
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fwamps. Many people go out together on this 
kind of fport, when dark : fome take with them 
little fafcines of fat Pine fplinters for torches ; 
others lacks or bags ; and others furnifh them- 
felves with poles or daves : thus accoutered and 
prepared, they approach the roods ; the fudden 
blaze of light confounds, blinds and affrights the 
birds, whereby multitudes drop off the limbs to 
the ground, and others are beaten off with the 
Haves, being by the fudden condensation, en- 
tirely helpleis, and eafily taken and put into the 
facks. It is chiefly the fweet fmall acorns of the 
Quercus pliillos, Quercus aquatica, Quercus fem- 
pervirens, Quercus flammula, and others, which 
induce thefe birds to migrate in the autumn to 
thofe Southern regions ; where they fpend their 
days agreeably, and fead luxurioufly, during the 
rigour of the colds in the North, whither they 
return at the approach of dimmer to breed. 
Sat>ofF next day, and croffed the river at Zub- 
ley’s ferry, about fifty miles above Savanna, and 
in three days after arrived at Charledon. 
Obferved, by the way near Jackfonfburg, Pon- 
pon, Ader fruticofus, growing plentifully in good 
moid ground, ufually by the banks of canals. 
It is a mod charming autumnal flowering fhrub ; 
it will rife to the height of eight or ten feet, when 
iupported by neighbouring trees. 
After a few days refidence in Charledon, I fat 
off on my return to my native land ; eroded Cow- 
per river, about nine miles above the city, where 
the water was a mile wide, and the ferry-houfe 
being on the oppofite fhore, I hoided my travel- 
ling blanket on a pole for a fignal, which being 
white, the people foon came to me and carried 
s me 
