NORTH AMERICA* 
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when I loft my way : but coming up to a fence, I 
faw a glimmering light, which conducted me to a 
houfe, where I ftayed all night, and met with very 
civil entertainment. Early next morning I fat off 
again, in company with the overfeer of the farm, 
who piloted me through a large and difficult fwamp, 
when we parted ; he in chafe of deer, and I to- 
wards Darian. I rode feveral miles through a 
high foreft of pines, thinly growing on a level plain, 
which admitted an ample view, and a free circula- 
tion of air, to another fwamp : and crofting a con- 
liderable branch of Sapello river, I then came to a 
fmall plantation by the fide of another fwamp : the 
people were remarkably civil and hofpitable. The 
man’s name was M f Into£h, a family of the firfc co- 
lony eftablifhed in Georgia, under the condufl of 
general Oglethorpe. Was there ever fuch a fcene 
of primitive fimplicity, as was here exhibited, fince 
the days of the good king Tammany ! The vene- 
rable grey-headed Caledonian fmilingly meets me 
coming up to his houfe. e£ Welcome, ft ranger ; 
come in, and reft ; the air is now very fultry ; it 
is a very hot day.” I was there treated with fome 
excellent venifon, and here found friendly and fecure 
fheker from a tremendous thunder florin, which 
came up from the N. W. and foon after my arri- 
val began to di (charge its fury all around. Step- 
ping to the door to obferve the progrefs and di- 
rection of the tempeft, the fulgour and rapidity of 
the ftreams of lightning, paffing from cloud to cloud, 
and from the clouds to the earth, exhibited a very 
awful fcene ; when inftantly the lightning, as it 
were, opening a fiery chafm in the black cloud, 
darted with inconceivable rapidity on the trunk of a 
large pine-tree, that flood thirty or forty yards from 
me, and fet it in a blaze. The flame inftantly 
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