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wood for my fire, drolling in the dark about the 
groves, I found the furface of the ground very un- 
even, by means of little mounts and ridges. Ia 
the morning I found I had taken up my lodging on 
the border of an ancient burying-ground, containing 
fepulchres or tumuli of the Yamafees, who were here 
flain by the Creeks in the laft decifive battle, the 
Creeks haying driven them into this point, between 
the doubling of the river, where few of them efcaped 
the fury of the conquerors. Thefe graves occupied 
the whole grove, confiding of two or three acres of 
ground : there were near thirty of thefe cemeteries of 
the dead, nearly of an equal fize and form, being 
oblong, twenty feet in length, ten or twelve feet in 
width, and three or four feet high, now overgrown 
with orange trees, live oaks, laurel magnolias, red 
bays, and other trees and fhrubs, compofing dark and 
folemn fliades. 
I here, for the firft time fmee I left the trading 
houfe, enjoyed a night of peaceful repofe. I arofe 
greatly refrefhed and in good fpirits, ftepped on 
board my bark, and continued my voyage. After 
doubling the point, I paffed by fwamps and meadows 
on, each fide of me. The river here is fomething 
more contracted within perpendicular banks ; the 
land of an excellent quality, fertile, and producing 
prodigioufly large timber and luxuriant herbage. 
The air continued fultry, and fcarcely enough 
wind to flutter the leaves on the trees. The Eaflern 
coafl of the river now opens, and prefents to view 
* ample plains, confiding of graffy marfhes and green 
meadows, and affords a profpedt almoff unlimit- 
ed, and extremely pleafmg. The oppofite fhore 
exhibits a fublime contrail 9 a high bluff bearing 
magnificent forefts of grand magnolia^ glorious 
