TRAVELS IN 
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Next day we fet off on our return to the lower 
trading-houfe, propofing to encamp at a favanna, 
about twelve miles diftance from this, where we 
were to halt again and fray a day or two, in order 
to colled: together another party of horfes, which 
had been Rationed about that range. The young 
wild horfes often breaking from the company, ren- 
dered our progrefs How and trouble feme ; we how- 
ever arrived at the appointed place long before 
night. 
1 had an opportunity this day of colleding a va- 
riety of fpecimens and feeds of vegetables, fome of 
which appeared new to me, particularly Sophora, 
Ciftus, Tradefcantia, Hypoxis, Iatropa, Gerardia, 
Pedicularis, Mimofa fenfitiva, Helonias, Melan- 
thium, Lilium, Aletris, Agave, Cadus, Zamia, 
Empetrum, Erythryna, Echium, See. 
Next day, the people being again engaged in 
their bu fine fs of ranging the forefts and plains, ii\ 
fearch of their horfes, I accompanied them, and in 
our rambles we again vifited the great favanna and 
lake, called the Long Pond: the lake is nearly in 
the middle of the fpacious lawn, of an oblong form ; 
above two miles wide and feven in length ; one end 
approaching the high green banks adjoining the fo- 
re its, where there is an enchanting grove and grot- 
to of pellucid waters, inhabited with multitudes of 
fifli, continually afeending and depending through 
the clean, white rocks, (loping from the green 
Verged fiiore, by gradual fteps, from frnooth, flat 
pavements waffled by the fweiling undulations of 
the waters. 
Arrived in the evening at camp, where we found 
the red of our companions bufily employed in re- 
curing 
