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horfe's feer. I obferved a great variety of IhelL 
•fifh, as Echinitis, Ccrallinus, Patella, Medufa, 
Buccina, Concha venerea, Auris marina, Cancer, 
Squilla, &c. fome alive, and others dead, having 
been call upon the beach by the ftas, in times of 
tempeft, where they became a prey to fea-fowl, 
and other maritime animals, or periled by the heat 
of the fun and burning fands. At length I doubled 
the utmoft fouth point of St. Simon's, which forms 
the north cape of the fouth channel of the great 
river Alatamaha. The found, juft within this cape., 
forms an excellent bay, or cove, on the fouth end 
of the iflarid, on the oppofite fide of which I be- 
held a houfe and farm, where I foon arrived. This 
delightful habitation was (ituated in the midft of a 
fpacious grove of Live Oaks and Palms, near the 
ftrand of the bay, commanding a view of the inlet. 
A cool area furrounded the low but convenient 
buildings, from whence, through the groves, was 
a fpacious avenue into the ifland, terminated by a 
large favanna ; each fide of the avenue was lined 
with bee-hiyes, to the number of fifty or fixty ; 
they fee me d to be well peopled, and exhibited 3 
lively image of a colony that has attained to a ftate 
of power and affluence, by the practice of virtue 
and induftry. 
When I approached the houfe, the good man, 
who was reclining on a bear-fkin, fpread under the 
fhade of a Live Oak, fmoking his pipe, rofe and r 
fainted me: cc Welcome, ftranger $ I am indulg- 
ing the rational di&ates of nature, taking a little 
reft, having juft come in from the chace and fifh- 
ins\ ” After fome converfation and reft, his fer- 
yant brought a bov/l pf honey and water, a very 
fefr^ftiing and agreeable liquor, of which I drank. 
On riling to take my departure^ he ohjedted, and 
requefled 
