NORTH AMERICA® 
me fafe over. In three days more eafy travelling, 
I eroded Winyaw bay, juft below George town ; 
and in t\vo days more, got to the W eft end of 
Long bay, where I lodged at a large Indigo plan- 
tation® Sat off early next morning, and after 
crofting over the fand ridges, which afford little 
elfe but Quercus pumila, Myrica cerifera, Caf- 
fine, Sideroxylon and Andromeda entangled witli 
various fpecies of Smilax, got on the bay, which 
is a hard fand beach, expofed for the diftance of 
fifteen miles to the continual lafh of the Atlantic 
ocean® At about low water mark, are cliffs of 
rocks of the helmintholithus, being a very firm 
concrete or petrifaction, confuting of various 
kinds of feafhells, fine fand and pulverized fhells : 
there is a reef of thefe rocks, thirty or forty yards 
farther out than low water mark, which lift their 
rugged backs above water, and brave the con- 
tinual ftrokes of the waves, which, however, 
aftifted by the conftant friction of the fands, make 
continual inroads upon them, and bore them into 
holes and cavities, when tempeftuous feas rend 
them to pieces, fcattering the fragments over the 
Tandy fhore. It is pleafant riding on this clean 
hard fand, paved with fhells of various colours® 
Obferved a number of perfons coming up a 
head, whom I loon perceived to be a party of 
Negroes. I had every reafon to dread the confe- 
quence ; for this being a defolate place, I was by 
this time feveral miles from any houfe or planta- 
tion, and had reafon to apprehend this to be a 
predatory band of Negroes ; people being fre- 
quently attacked, robbed, and fometimes mur- 
dered by them at this place. I was unarmed, 
alone, and my horfe tired ; thus fituated every 
way in their power, I had no alternative but to 
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