TRAVELS IW 
1 6 
CHAP. III. 
I sat off early in the morning for the Indian 
trading-houfe, in the river St. Mary, and took the 
road up the N. E. fide of the Alatamaha to Fort- 
Barrington. I palled through a well-inhabited dif- 
tri6l, moftlv rice plantations, on the waters of Cat- 
head creek, a branch of the Alatamaha. On draw- 
ing near the fort, I was greatly delighted at the 
appearance of two new beautiful fhrubs, in all their 
blooming graces. One of them appeared to be a 
fpecies of Gordonia*, but the flowers are larger, 
and more fragrant than thofe of the Gardenia Laf- 
canthus, and are feflile ; the feed veflel is alfo very 
different. The other was equally diflinguifhed for 
beauty and Angularity $ it grows twelve or fifteen 
feet high, the branches afeendant and oppofite, and 
terminate with large panicles of pale blue tubular 
flowers, {peeked on the infide with crimfon ; but 
what is Angular, thefe panicles are ornamented 
with a number of ovate large bradteas, as white, and 
like fine paper, their tops and verges flained with 
a rofe-red, which, at a little diflan ce, has the ap- 
pearance of cluflers of rofes, at the extremities of 
the limbs : the flowers are of the CL Pentandria 
monogynia ; the leaves are nearly ovate, pointed 
and petioled, {landing oppofite to one another on 
the branches. 
After fifteen miles riding, I arrived at the ferry, 
which is near the Ate of the fort. Here is a confl- 
derable height and bluff on the river, and evident 
vefliges 
* Franklmia Alatahami. 
