TRAVELS IN 
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Next day we travelled about twenty miles far- 
ther, crofting two confiderable creeks named Great 
and Little Tobofochte; and at evening encamped 
clofe by a beautiful large brook called Sweet Wa- 
ter, the glittering waving flood palling along active- 
ly over a bed of pebbles and gravel. The territory 
through which we paffed from the banks of the 
Oakmulge to this place, exhibited a delightful di- 
verfified rural fcene, and promifes a happy, fruitful, 
and falubrious region, when cultivated by induflri- 
ous inhabitants ; generally ridges of low fwelling 
hills and plains fupporting grand forefts, vail Cane 
meadows, favannas and verdant lawns. 
I oblerved here a very Angular and beautiful 
fferub, which I fuppofe is a fpecies of Hydrangia 
(H. quercifolia). It grows in coppices or clumps near 
or on the banks of rivers and creeks; many Items 
ufually .arife from a root, fpreading itfelf greatly on 
all Aides by fuckers or offsets ; the Hems grow five 
or fix feet high, declining or diverging from each 
other, and are covered with feveral barks or rinds, 
the laft of which being; of a cinereous dirt colour 
and very thin, at a certain age of the Hems or fhoots, 
cracks through to the next bark, and is peeled off 
by the winds, difcovering the under, fmooth, dark 
reddifh brown bark, which alfo cracks and peels off 
the next year, in like manner as the former ; thus 
every year forming a new bark; the items divide 
regularly or oppofitely, though the branches are 
crooked or wreathe about horizontally, and thefe 
again divide, forming others which terminate with 
large heavy panicles or thyrfi of flowers; but 
thefe flowers are of two kinds : the numerous par- 
tial fpikes which compofe the panicles, and confift 
of a multitude of very fmall fruitful flowers, ter- 
minate 
