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the laminae. The furface of the ground upon this 
bluff, extends a mile and a half or two miles 
on the river, and is from an half mile to a mile in 
breadth, nearly level, and a good fertile foil ; as is 
evident from the vail Oaks, Hickory, Mulberry, 
Black walnut and other trees and fhrubs, which are 
left Handing in the old fields which are fpread 
abroad to a great diftance ; and difeovers various 
monuments and veftiges of the refidence of the 
ancients ; as Indian conical mounts, terraces, areas, 
&c. as well as remains or traces of fortreffes of re- 
gular formation, as if confix acted after the modes of 
European military architects, which are fuppofed 
to be ancient camps of the Spaniards who formerly 
fixed themfelves at this place in hopes of finding 
filver. 
But perhaps Mr. Golphin’s buildings and im- 
provements will prove to be the foundation of mo- 
numents of infinitely greater celebrity and perma- 
nency than either of the preceding eftablifhrxients. 
The place which at this day is called fort Moore, 
is a ftupendous bluff, or high perpendicular bank 
of earth, rifing out of the river on the Carolina 
Chore, perhaps ninety or one hundred feet above the 
common furface of me water ; and exhibits a lingu- 
lar and pleafmg fpeblacle to a ftranger, efpecially 
from the oppofite Chore, or as we pafs up or down 
the river, prefen ting a view of prodigious walls of 
party-coloured earths, chiefly clays and marl of va- 
rious colours, as brown, red, yellow, blue, purple, 
white, &c. in horizontal ftrata, one over the o- 
ther. 
Waiting for the ferry boat to carry me over, 
I walked almoft round the under fide of the bluff, 
betwixt its deep wall and the water of the river, 
which. 
