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lowing this conrfe I was led to the cape of the little 
river, defending from Six Mile Springs, and mean- 
dering fix miles from its fource through green mea- 
dows. I entered this pellucid dream, failing over 
the heads of innumerable fquadrons of fiflh, which, al- 
though many feet deep in the water, were didindtly 
to be fee n. 1 paffed by charming iflets of flou riffl- 
ing trees, as Palm, Red Bay, Afh, Maple, Nyfla, and 
others. As I approached the didant high feed on 
the main, the river widened, floating fields of the 
green Piftia furrouncled me, the rapid dream wind- 
ing through them. What an alluring fcene was now 
before me ! A vaft bafon or little lake of cry dal 
waters, half encircled by feeding lulls, clad with 
Orange and odoriferous Jllicium groves, the tower- 
ing Magnolia, itfelf a grove, and the exalted Palm, 
as if confcious of their tranfcendent glories, totted 
about their lofty heads, painting, with mutable 
fhades, the green floating fields beneath. The fo- 
cial prattling coot enrobed in blue, and the fqueel- 
ing water-hen, with wings half expanded, tripped 
after each other, over the watery mirrour, 
I put in at an ancient landing place, which is a 
Hoping a (cent to a level graffy plain, an old In- 
dian field. As I intended to make my mod conff- 
derable collections at this place, I proceeded im- 
mediately to fix my encampment but a few yards, 
from my fafe harbour, where I fecurely fattened 
my boat to a Live Oak, which overfhadowed my 
port. 
After collecting a good quantity of fire-wood, 
as it was about the middle of the afternoon, I re- 
folved to reconnoitre the ground about my encamp^ 
rnent. Having penetrated the groves i\ext to me, 
I came to the open feeds, confiding of exceed- 
