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TRAVELS 
CHAP. VI. 
July 13th we left the Apalachucla town, and 
three days journey brought us to Talaffe, a town 
on the Tallapoofe river, the North Eaft great 
branch of the Alabama or Mobile river ; having 
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paffed oyer a vail level plain country of expanfive 
favannas, groves, Cane fwamps and open Pine fo~ 
refts, watered by innumerable rivulets and brooks, 
tributary to Apalachucla and Mobile. We now 
altered our courfe, turning to the left hand. Souther- 
ly, and delcending near the river banks, continually 
in fight of the Indian plantations and commons ad- 
jacent to their towns. Faffed by Otaffe, an ancient 
famous Mufcogulge town. The next fettlement 
we came to was Coolome, where we flayed two 
days, and having letters for Mr. Germany, the prin- 
cipal trader of Coolome, I meant to confult with 
him in matters relative to my affairs and future pro- 
ceedings. 
Here are very extenfive old fields, the abandoned 
plantations and commons of the old town, on the 
Eaft fide of the river ; but the fettlement is remov- 
ed, and the new town now Hands on the oppofite 
fhore, in a charming fruitful plain, under an elevated 
ridge of hills, the fweljing beds or bafes of which 
lire covered with a pleafing verdure of grafs ; but 
the lafl afcent is fleeper, and towards the fummit 
difcovers fhelving rocky cliffs, which appear to be 
continually fplitting and burfling to pieces, Matter- 
ing their thin exfoliations over the tops of the graffy 
knolls beneath. The plain is narrow where the 
towri 
