A \ Thousand-Mile TValk 
was enriched with other interweaving species of 
vines and brightly colored flowers. This is the 
first truly southern stream I have met. 
At night I reached the home of a young man 
with whom I had worked in Indiana, Mr. 
Prater. He was down here on a visit to his 
father and mother. This was a plain back- 
woods family, living out of sight among knobby 
timbered hillocks not far from the river. The 
evening was passed in mixed conversation on 
southern and northern generalities. 
September 24 . Spent this day with Mr. Prater 
sailing on the Chattahoochee, feasting on 
grapes that had dropped from the overhanging 
vines. This remarkable species of wild grape 
has a stout stem, sometimes five or six inches 
in diameter, smooth bark and hard wood, quite 
unlike any other wild or cultivated grapevine 
that I have seen. The grapes are very large, 
some of them nearly an inch in diameter, 
globular and fine flavored. Usually there are 
but three or four berries in a cluster, and when 
mature they drop off instead of decaying on 
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