NORTH aMERICAo 
£ompenfated for our difficulties and delays. 1 ob- 
ferved the great aconitum napellus, delphinium 
peregrinum, the carminative angelica lucida*, and 
cerulean malva. 
We at length happily acccornplifhed our line, ar- 
riving at the little river, where our hunters bring- 
ing in plenty of venifon aud turkeys, we had a plen- 
tiful feaft at fupper. Next morning we marked the 
corner tree, at the confluence of Little River and the 
Savanna ; and, foon after, the Indians amicably 
took leave of us, returning home to their towns. 
The rocks and foffils, which conftitute the hills 
of this middle region, are of various fpecies* 
as, quartfum, ferrum, cos, filex, giarea, arena, 
ochra, ftala&ites, faxum, mica, &c. I faw no 
figns of marble, plafter, or lime-ftone; yet there 
are, near Augufta, in the forefts, great piles of a 
porous friable white rock, in large and nearly hori- 
zontal mafles, which feems to be an heterogeneous 
concrete, conflfling of pulverized fea-fhells, with 
a fmall proportion of fand 3 it is foft, and eaflly 
wrought into any form, yet of fufficient confluence 
for conflruCHng any building. 
As for the animal productions, they are the fame 
which originally inhabited this part of N orth Ame- 
rica, except fuch as have been affrighted away flnce 
the invaflon of the Europeans. The buffalo (urus) 
once fo very numerous, is not at this day to be feen 
in this part of the country; there are but few elks, and 
thofe only in the Apalachian mountains. The dreaded 
and formidable rattle -fnake is yet too common, and 
a variety of other ferpents abound, particularly that 
admirable creature, the glafs-fnake : I faw a very 
* Called nondo in Virginia ; by ths Creek an! Cherokee traders, white 
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