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COLONIAL MOBILE.
WHAT BARTRAM SAW.	243
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days, but, when lie passed the line of 33? on Mobile Iliver,
beyond our jurisdiction, although his visit to Mancliac is full w ,
of interest/ There he found q, large establishment of Swanson H If where tlle Illicium groves cease to perspire oleaginous rwm7
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& Co., Indian traders and merchants. The Iberville had a wooden bridge over to the Spanish possessions, but the stream	*
was then dry and its bed twelve to fifteen feet above the Mis-fe sissippi. Two miles above, he saw Alabama, a village of the ? remnant of that Indian nation ? which inhabited the east arm of the great Mobile l?iver which bears their name to this day." f-? ?They came from about Fort Toulouse.1
Bartram?s eyes still troubled him, and he determined to re- ^ turn home. ?Sailing back to Mobile, his boat ran aground on 4 sunken oyster-banks between Daupliine Island shoals and the W West Cape of Mobile Bay; but the next day a south wind raised the sea and they got of?r and finally reached Mobile.
As his route would be overland through the Creek nation into -v Georgia, he shipped his botanical treasures by sea from Mobile, % He says:	?I made up my collections of growing roots, seeds,
and curious specimens and left them to the care of Messrs. 3: Swanson & McGillivray, to be forwarded to Dr. Fothergill, of Is London.? lie says nothing of the Revolutionary War in these ^ parts, ? for there was none, ?? but is a little uneasy at hearing of the murder at Apalache, by the Seminoles or Lower Creeks, of emigrants for Mobile. He therefore joined a caravan des- -M tined for the nation. Before living, he observed in a garden'"^ two large trees of Juglans pecan, and also the Dioscorea lul-
arrives,
- * ? ? we leave him, although our interest follows until he > via sea voyage, at his father?s on the Schuylkill in Januaryv, i-1778.1
? 1 The expedition of Bartram to the South is one of the important events I in botanical history, and his hook among the classics of tlmt science. The | edition quoted is the Dublin one of 1793, but it was published in 1791 at
*	Philadelphia, where his father had established the earliest botanical garden ?; in the United States, one which has recently been purchased by the publio J mthorities on account of its beauty and value. William Bartram died there \ in 1823.
| All of his plants have not been certainly identified, but the vernacular
*	equivalents given above are those of that accurate and learned botanist, J? Dr. Charles Mohr, of Mobile. He it was that rediscovered Bartram?s Myrica Jinodora; and for him it was that the Halesea was renamed Mohrodendron, f when the other name was found to have been already appropriated by a ^ West Indian plant. He says' that Bartram?s Magnolia auriculata has dis-; appeared from the Mobile forests.
bifera,
which bears fruit in the leaves two to three feet from -M:
the ground and tastes like the yam.
His servant or companion was a Mustee Indian, who had been in the Choctaw nation and learned their songs and dances, but,? V? not conforming to their customs, he had been chased by them to Ml f Mobile, whence he was going to the Creeks. Bartram?s horue ????'4. gave out, and, to keep up with his companions, he had to buy a new one from some traders whom they met. It cost him ten ; pounds. The custom of traders is to let their horses graze at |5, night, he says, and they do not get ready to start in the morning until the sun is high. Then they decamp, the loaded beast* falling into single file, urged on with whip and whoop.	i
At this lively pace he continued his journey for several
1	Bartram?s Travels, p. 427 ; Pittman?s Mississippi Settlements, p. 24.
3 Bartram?s Travelsl p. 437.