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me fafe over. In three days more eafy travellings 
I eroded Winy aw bay, juft below George town ; and 
in two days more, got to the Weft end of Long 
bay, where I lodged at a large Indigo plantation. 
Sat off early next morning, and after crofting over 
the fand ridges, which afford little elfe but Quercus 
pumila, Myrica cerifera, Caftine, Sideroxylon and 
Andromeda entangled with various Ipecies of Smi- 
lax, got on the bay, which is a hard fand beach, 
expofed for the diftance of fifteen miles to the con- 
tinual lafti of the Atlantic ocean. At about low 
water mark, are cliffs of rocks of the helmintholi- 
thus, being a very firm concrete or petrifadion, con- 
lifting of various kinds of fea-fhells, fine fand and 
pulverized ftiells : there is a reef of thefe rocks, 
thirty or forty yards farther out than low water 
mark, which lift their rugged backs above wa- 
ter, and brave the continual ftrokes of the waves, 
which, however, aftifted by the conftant fri&ion of 
the lands, make continual inroads upon them, and 
bore them into holes and cavities, when tempeftuous 
leas rend them to pieces, fcattering the fragments 
over the fandy Ihore. It is pleafant riding on this 
dean hard fand, paved with Ihells of various co- 
lours. 
Obferved a number of perfons coming up a 
head, whom I foon perceived to be a party of 
Negroes. I had every reafon to dread the confe- 
quence ; for this being a defolate place, I was by 
this time feveral miles from any houfe or planta- 
tion, and had reafon to apprehend this to be a 
predatory band of Negroes j people being fre- 
quently attacked, robbed, and fometimes mur- 
dered by them at this place. I was unarmed, 
alone, and my horfe tired; thus fituated every 
way in their power, I had no alternative but to 
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