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gnifhed talents and great liberality, who poffeffed 
the moft extenfive trade, connexions and influence, 
arnongit the South and South- Weft Indian tribes, 
particularly with the Creeks and ChaXaws of 
whom I fortunately obtained letters of recommen- 
dation and credit to the principal traders redding 
in the Indian towns. 
Silver Bluff is a very celebrated place. It is a 
conhderabie height upon the Carolina fliore of the 
Savanna river, perhaps thirty feet higher than the 
low lands on the oppoftte fhore, which are fubjcX 
to be overflowed in the fpring and fall. This fteep 
bank rifes perpendicularly out of the river, difcover- 
ing various ftrata of earth ; the liirface for a confi- 
derable depth is a loofe fandy loam, with a mixture 
of fea (hells, efpecially oftreae $ the next ftratum is 
clay, then fand, next marl, then clays again of vari- 
ous colours and qualities, which laft infenflbly mix 
or unite with a deep ftratum of blackifh or dark 
{late coloured faline and fulphureous earth, which 
feems to be of an aluminous or vitriolic quality, 
and lies in nearly horizontal lamina or ftrata of va- 
rious ihicknefs. We difcovered bellemnites, pyrites, 
marcafites and fulphureous nodules, fhining like 
'brafs, feme Angle of various forms, and others con- 
glomerated, lying in this black flaty-like micaceous 
earth ; as alfo, flicks, limbs and trunks of trees, 
leaves, acorns, and their cups, all tranfmuted or 
changed black, hard and ihining as charcoal: we 
alfo fee animal fubftances, as if petrified, or what 
are called (narks’ teeth, (dentes carcharire) ; but 
thefe heterogeneous fubftances or petrifactions are 
the moft abundant and confpicuous where there is a 
loofer kind of earth, either immediately upon this 
yaft ftratum of black earth, or in the divifions of 
fhe 
