NORTH AMERICA* 467 
CHAP, X. 
Having now completed my colledHons in Geor- 
gia, I took leave of thefe Southern regions, pro- 
ceeding on my return to Charlefton. Left Savanna 
in the evening, in confequence of a prefling invita- 
tion from the honourable Jonathan Bryan, Efq. who 
was returning from the capital, to his villa, about 
eight miles up Savanna river; a very delightful 
fituation, where are fpacious gardens, furnifhed with 
a variety of fruit trees and flowering flirubs. Ob- 
ferved in a low wet place at the corner of the gar- 
den, the Ado (Arum efculentum) ; this plant is 
much cultivated in the maritime parts of Georgia 
and Florida, for the fake of its large Turnip-like 
root, which when boiled or roafted, is excellent food, 
and takes like the Yam ; the leaves of this magnifi- 
cent plant are very large, and of a beautiful green 
colour, the fpatha large and circulated, the fpadi% 
terminates with a very long Tubulated tongue, naked 
and perfeftly white: perhaps this maybe the Arum 
Colocafla. They have like wife another fpecies of 
the efculent Arum, called Tannier, which is a large 
and beautiful plant, and much cultivated and e {teem- 
ed for food, particularly by the Negroes. 
At night, foon after our arrival, feveral of his 
Jervants came home with horfe loads of wild pi- 
geons (Columba migratpria), which it feems they 
had collefled in a flhort fpace of time at a neigh- 
bouring Bay fwamp : they take them by torch 
light: the birds have particular rooking places, 
where they aflfociate in incredible multitudes at 
evening, on low trees and bullies, in hommocks 
or higher kqolls in the interior parts of vak 
H h 2 fwamps. 
