[128] Southern Review, Vol. VI., p. 410, seq.
[129] Report of F. L. Dancy, State Engineer and Geologist, in the Message of the Governor of Florida, with Accompanying Documents, for 1855, App., p. 9.
[130] A Description of the Province of Carolina, p. 2, London, 1727.
[131] Trans. Hist. and Lit. Com. of the Am. Phil. Soc., Vol. I., p. 113.
[132] Hist. of the American Indians, p. 358.
[133] Gilii’ Saggio di Storia Americana, Tomo III., p. 375.
[134] Rex qui in hisce Montibus habitabat, Ao. 1562, dicabatur Apalatcy; ideoque ipsi montes eodem nomine vocantur, is written on the map of the country in Dapper’s Neue und Unbekaute Welt (Amsterdam, 1673,) probably on the authority of Ribaut.
[135] The plums mentioned by these writers were probably the fruit of the Prunus Chicasaw. This was not an indigenous tree, but was cultivated by the Southern tribes. During his travels, the botanist Bartram never found it wild in the forests, “but always in old deserted Indian plantations.” (Travels, p. 38.)
[136] See Appendix III.
[137] Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Illes Antilles de l’Amerique, Liv. II., pp. 331-353. Rotterdam, 1658.