TRAVELS IN 
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Next morning after breakfaft we fet off again, 
continuing nine or ten miles farther down the river, 
when we flopped at a plantation, the property of 
one of our companions, where we were joined by 
the reft of the company. After dining here we 
prepared to depart ; and the gentleman of the houfe 
taking an affectionate leave of his wife and chil- 
dren, we fat off again, and proceeding fix miles 
farther down the river, we crofted over into Georgia, 
taking a road which led us into the great trading 
path from Augufta to the Creek nation. As the 
foil, fttuation and produ&ions of thefe parts, for 
feveral days journey, differ very little from the 
Northern diftriCts of Georgia, already recited, when 
on the furvey of the New Purchafe, I apprehend it 
needlefs to enter again into a detail of particulars, 
fince it would produce but little more than a re- 
capitulation of that journey. 
Early in the evening of the 27th we arrived at 
the Flat-rock, where we lodged. This is a com- 
mon rendezvous or camping-place for traders and 
Indians. It is an expanftve clean flat or horizontal 
rock, but a little above the furface of the ground, 
and near the banks of a delightful rivulet of excel- 
lent water, which is one of the head branches of Great 
Ogeche : in the loofe rich foil verging round this 
rock, grew feveral very curious herbaceous plants, 
particularly one of Angular elegance and beauty, 
which I take to be a fpecies of Ipomea (Ipomea, 
cauje eredlo, ramofo, tripedali, fol. radicalibus, pin- 
natifidis, linearibus, humi-fcratis, florib. incarnatis 
Lotus maculis coccineis adfperlb). It grows ereCl, 
three feet high, with a ftrong item, which is deco- 
rated with plumed or pinnatifid linear leaves, 
fomewhat refembling thefe of the Delphinium or 
