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CHAP. V. 
Being defirous of continuing my travels and ob~ 
fervations higher up the river, and having an invi- 
tation from a gentleman who was agent for, and 
refident at, a large plantation, the property of an 
Englifh gentleman, about fixty miles higher up, I 
refolved to purfue my refearches to that place ; and 
having engaged in my fervice a young Indian, ne- 
phew to the white captain, he agreed to affld me 
in working my veffel up as high as a certain bluff, 
where I was, by agreement, to land him, on the 
Weft or Indian lhore, whence he deligned to go in 
queft of the camp of the White Trader, his relation. 
Provifions and all neceffaries being procured, 
and the morning pleafant, we went on board and 
flood up the river. We paffed for feveral miles on 
the left, by iflands of high fwamp land, exceedingly 
fertile, their banks for a good diflance from the wa- 
ter, much higher than the interior part, and fuffi- 
ciently fo to build upon, and be out of the reach of 
inundations. They confift of a loofe black mould, 
with a mixture of fand, fhells, and diffolved vege- 
tables. The oppoiite Indian coaft is a perpendicu- 
lar bluff, ten or twelve feet high, confiding of a 
black fandy earth, mixed with a large proportion of 
fhells, chiefly various fpecies of frefh water cochlea 
and mytuli. Near the river, on this high fhore, 
grew corypha psdma, magnolia grandiflora, live 
oak, callicarpa, myrica cerifera, hibifcus fpinifex, 
and the beautiful evergreen fhrub called wild lime 
or tallow nut. This lad fhrub grows fix or eight 
feet high, many ere 61 dems fpring from a root s 
