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toriurn, Sylphium, Rudbeckia, Gerardia, Afclepias, 
Agave Virginica, Eryngium, Thapfia, Euphorbia, 
Polymnia, &c. 
In the courfe of this day’s journey we eroded 
two considerable rivulets, running Swiftly over rocky 
beds. There is Some very good land on the gra- 
dual deicents of the ridges and their bottoms bor- 
dering on creeks, and very extenfive graffy Savan- 
nas and cane meadows always in view on one hand 
or the other. At evening we came to camp on the 
banks of a beautiful creek, a branch of Great Oge- 
che, called Rocky Comfort, where we found ex- 
cellent accommodations, here being pleafant graf- 
fy open plains to Spread our beds upon, environed 
with extenfive cane meadows, affording the beft of 
food for our quadrupeds. 
The next day’s journey led us over a level dif- 
tribl ; the land generally very fertile and of a good 
quality for agriculture, the vegetable Surface being 
of a dark, loofe, rich mould, on a Stratum of Stiff 
reddifh brown clay. C rolling Several considerable 
creeks, branches of the Ocone, North branch of the 
Alatamaha; at evening, July iff, encamped on the 
banks of rhe Ocone, in a delightful grove of foreft 
trees, confiding of Oak, Aih, Mulberry, Hiccory, 
Black Walnut, Elm, Safiafras, Gleditfia, &c. This 
flourifhing grove was an appendage of the high fo~ 
refts we had paffed through, and projected into an 
extenfive, green, open, level plain, confiding of 
old Indian Helds and plantations, being the rich low 
lands of the river, and dretching along its banks 
upwards to a very great didance, charmingly di- 
ver fified and decorated with detached groves and 
clumps of various trees and fhrubs, and indented 
on its verge by advancing and retreating promon- 
tories of the high land. 
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