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TRAVELS IN 
and meadows, little differing from the environs of 
Capola, diverfified with rocky iflets or horn mocks 
of dark woodland. 
We next entered a vaft foreft of the mod (lately 
Pine trees that can be imagined, planted by na- 
ture, at a moderate didance, on a level, graffy plain, 
enamelled with a variety of flowering (hrubs, viz. 
Viola, Ruella infiindibuliforma, Amarvllis ata- 
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mafeo, Mimofa fenfitiva, Mimofa intfia and many 
others new to me. This fublime fored continued 
five or fix miles, when we came to dark groves of 
Oaks, Magnolias, Red bays, Mulberries, &c. through 
which proceeding near a mile, we entered open 
fields, and arrived at the town of Talahafochte, on 
the banks of Little St. Juan. 
The river Little St. Juan may, with lingular 
propriety, be termed the pellucid river. The wa- 
ters are the cleared and pured of any river I ever 
faw, tranfmitting didindlly the natural form and 
appearance of the objedls moving in the tranfparent 
floods, or repofing on the fllvery bed, with the finny 
inhabitants fporting in its gently flowing dream. 
The river at the town is about two hundred yards 
over, and fifteen or twenty feet in depth. The 
great fwamp and lake Oaquaphenogaw is faid to be 
its fource, which is about one hundred miles by land 
North of this place 5 which would give the river a 
courfe of near two hundred miles from its fource 
to the fea, to follow its meanders ; as in general 
our rivers that run any confiderable didance through 
the country to the fea, by their windings and rov- 
ing about to find a paffage through the ridges and 
heights, at lead double their didance. 
The Indians and traders fay that this river has no 
branches 
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