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be refigned and prepare to meet them. As foon 
as I faw them difti nelly a mile or two off, I im- 
mediately alighted to reft, and give breath to my , 
horfe, intending to attempt my fafety by flight, if 
upon near approach they fnould betray hoftile de- 
flgns. Thus prepared, when we drew near to each 
other, I mounted and rode brifkly up ; and though 
armed with clubs, axes and hoes, they opened to 
right and L ft, and let me pafs peaceably. Their 
. chief informed me whom they belonged to, and 
faid they were going to man a new quarter at the 
Weft end of the bay 3 I however kept a fharp eye 
about me, apprehending that this might poffibly 
have been an advanced divifion, and their intentions 
were to ambufeade and furround me 3 but they kept 
on quietly, and 1 was no more alarmed by them. Af- 
ter noon, I crofted the fwafh at the eaft end of the bay, 
and in the evening got to good quarters. Next morn- 
ing early I fat off again, and foon crofted Little 
River at the boundary 3 which is on the line that 
feparates North and South Carolina: in an old 
field, on the banks of this river, a little diftance 
from the public houfe, ftands a fingle tree of the 
Magnolia grandinora, which is faid to be the moft 
northern fettlement of that tree. Faffed this, day 
over expanftve favannas, charmingly decorated with 
late autumnal flowers, as Helianthus, Rudbeckia, 
Si’phium, Solidago, Helenium, Serratula, Cacalia, 
After, Lilium Martagon, Gentiana csrulea, Chiro- 
nia, Gentiana faponaria, Afclepias coccinea, Hype- 
ricum, Rhexia pulcherrima, &c. &c. 
Obferved likewife in thefe favannas abundance 
of the ludicrous Dionsa mufcipula (Dionaea, El- 
lis epis. ad Linnaeum, miraculym nature, folia 
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