TRAVELS IN 
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to the ftrawberry plains to regale on the fragrant, 
delicious fruit, welcomed by communities of the 
fplendid meleagris, the capricious roe-buck, and all 
the free and happy tribes, which poffefs and inhabit 
thofe prolific fields, who appeared to invite, and 
joined with me in the participation of the bountiful 
repaft prefented to us from the lap of nature. 
I mounted again, and followed the trading path 
about a quarter of a mile through the fields, then 
gently afcended the green beds of the hills, and en- 
tered the forefts, being a point of a chain of hills 
projecting into the green vale or low lands of the 
rivers. This foreft continued about a mile, the 
furface of the land level but rough, being covered 
with ftones or fragments of rocks, and very large, 
fimooth pebbles of various fhapes and fizes, fome of 
ten or fifteen pounds weight: I obferved on each 
fide of the road many vaft heaps of thefe ftones, 
Indian graves undoubtedly *. 
After I left the graves, the ample vale foon of- 
fered on my right hand, through the tall foreft trees, 
charming views, which exhibited a pieafing contrail, 
immediately out of the gloomy fhades and fcenes of 
death, into expanfive, lucid, green, flowery fields, 
expanding between retiring hills, and tufty emi- 
nences, the rapid Tanafe gliding through, as a vaft 
ferpent rufhing after his prey. 
My winding path now leads me again over the 
green fields into the meadows, fometimes vifiting 
* At this place was fought a bloody and decifive battle between thefe 
Indians and the Carolinians, under the condudt of general Middleton, when, 
a great number of Cherokee warriors were flain, which fhook their 
power, terrified and humbled them, mfomuch that they deferted molt of 
their fettlements in the low countries, and betook themfelves to the moun- 
tains as Isfs accefiible to the regular forces ©f the white people. 
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