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After four days moderate and pfeafant travel- 
ling, we arrived in the evening at the £ ' f lo I ick. 
This extraordinary place occupies federal acres of 
ground, at the foot of the S. E. promontory of the 
G rear Ridge, which, as before obferved, divides 
the rivers Savanna and Alatamaha. A large cane 
fwamp and meadows, forming an immenfe plain, 
lie S„ F. from it; in this fwamp I believe the head 
branches of the great Ogeeche river take their rife. 
The place called the Lick contains three or four 
acres, is nearly level, and lies between the head of 
the cane fwarnp and the afcent of the Ridge. The 
earth, from the fuperfides to an unknown depth, 
is an almoft white or cinereous coloured tenacious 
fattifh clay, which all kinds of cattle lick into great 
caves, purfuing the delicious vein. It is the com- 
mon opinion of the inhabitants, that this clay is im- 
pregnated with faline vapours, arifing from fofTile 
falts deep in the earth ; but I could difcover nothing 
faline in its take, but I imagined an infipid fweet- 
nefs. Horned cattle,* horfes, and deer, are immo- 
derately fond of it, infomuch, that their excrement, 
which almoft totally covers the earth to fome dis- 
tance round this place, appears to be per fed: clay ; 
which, vyhen dried by the fun and air, is almoft as 
hard as brick, 
We were detained at this place one day, in ad- 
juft in g and planning the fe vera-1 branches of the 
furvey. A circumftance occurred during this time, 
which was a remarkable inftance of Indian faga- 
city, and had nearly difconcerted all our plans, and 
put an end to the bu liners, The furveyor having fixed 
his compafs on the ftaff, and being about to aider- 
tain the courfe from our place of departure, which 
was to ftrike Savanna river at the confluence of a 
certain river, about ieventy miles diftance from us 
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