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CHAP* W. 
Having relied my felf a few days, and by ranging 
about the neighbouring plains and groves, furround- 
Ing this pleafant place, pretty well recovered my 
ftre.ng.th and fpirits, I began to think of planning my 
future excurfions, at a diftance round about this 
centre. I found, from frequent conferences with 
Mr. M c Latche, that I might with fafety extend my 
journeys every way, and with prudence, even into 
the towns and fettlements of the Indians, as they 
were perfectly reconciled to us, and fincerely wiihed 
for the renewal of our trade. 
There were three trading-houfes to be eftablifhed 
this fummer, each of which had its fupplies from 
the ftore on St. Juan, where I now had my reft- 
dence, and in which the produce or returns were 
to centre annually, in order to be dripped for Sa- 
vanna or Sunbury, and from thence to Europe. 
One of thefe trading-houfes was to be fixed 
about fixty miles higher up the river, from this place, 
by the name of Spalding’s upper ftore; a fecond at 
Alachua, about fifty miles weft from the river St. 
Juan; and a third at Talahafochte, a confiderable 
town of the Siminole's, on the river Little St. Juan, 
near the bay cf.Apalachi, about one hundred and 
twenty miles diftance. Each of thefe places I de~ 
figned to vifit, before the return of the vefTel to 
Frederica in the autumn, that I might avail my- 
felf of an opportunity fo favourable for tran {port- 
ing my collodions fo for on their way towards 
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