TRAVELS IN 
upon inort petioles ; the branches terminate with 
long, loofe panicles or fpikes of white flowers, 
whofe fegments are five, lone* and narrow. 
I arofe early next morning and continued my 
journev for Fort James. This day's progrefs was 
agreeably entertaining, from the novelty and vari- 
ety of objects and views : the wild country now ai- 
med depopulated, vail forefts, expanfive plains and 
detached groves ; then chains of hills whofe gra- 
velly, dry, barren fummits prefent detached piles of 
rocks, which delude and flatter the hopes and ex- 
peditions of the folitary traveller, full fure of 
hofpitable habitations \ heaps of white, gnawed 
bones of the ancient buffalo, elk and deer, indif- 
criminately mixed with thofe of men, half grown 
over with mois, altogether, exhibit fcenes of un- 
cultivated nature, on refledlion, perhaps, rather 
difagreeable to a mind of delicate feelings and fen- 
Ability, fince fome of thefe objedts recognize pad 
tranfadfions and events, perhaps not altogether re-* 
concileable to juftice and humanity. 
How harmonious and fweetly murmur the pur- 
ling rills and fleeting brooks, roving along the 
fhadowy vales, paifing through dark, fubterranean 
caverns, or dafhing over fleep rocky precipices, 
their cold, humid banks condenfing the volatile va- 
pours, which falling coalefce in crydalline drops, on 
the leaves and elaftic twis;s of the aromatic dirubs 
and incarnate flowers ! In thefe cool, fequedered, 
rocky vales, we behold the following celebrated 
beauties of the hills, fragrant Calycanthus, blufh- 
ing Rhododendron ferrugineum, delicate Phila- 
deiphus inodorus, which difplays the white wavy 
mantle, with the fky robed Dephinium, perfumed 
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