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veftiges of an ancient Indian town may be feen, 
fuch as old extenfive fields, and conical mounds, 
or artificial heaps of earth. I here eroded the ri- 
ver, which is about five hundred yards over; in a 
good large boat, rowed by a Creek Indian, who 
was married to a white woman ; he deemed an ac- 
tive, civil, and fenfible man. I daw large, tall trees 
of the Nylda coccinea, fi. Ogeeche, growing on the 
banks of the riven They grow in the water, near 
the Shore. There is no tree that exhibits a more 
dedirable appearance than this, in the autumn, 
when the fruit is ripe, and the tree diverted of its 
leaves; for then they look as red as fcarlet, with 
their fruit, which is of that colour aldo. It is of 
the rtiape, but larger than the olive, containing an 
agreeable acid juice. The leaves are oblong, lan- 
ceolate and entire, fomewhat hoary underneath 5 
their upper durface of a full green, and Shining 3 
the petioles fhort, pedunculis mukifloris^ The moft 
northern fettlement of this tree, yet known, is on 
Great Ogeeche, where they are called Ogeeche 
limes, from their acid fruit being about the fize of 
limes, and their being fometimes ufed in their 
ftead. 
Being fafely landed on the oppofite bank, I 
mounted my horfe, and followed the high road to 
the ferry on St. Ille, about fixty miles fouth of the 
Alatamaha, parting through an uninhabited wilder- 
nefs* The Hidden transition from rich cultivated 
fettlernents, to high pine forefts, dark and grafty 
favannas, forms in my opinion no difagreeable con- 
trails ; and the new objedls of observation in the 
works of nature foon reconcile the furp riled ima- 
gination to the change. As foon as 1 had loft fight 
of the river, afeending fome land-hills, I obferved 
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