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River Country of Georgia
woody leguminous plants, eight or ten feet high, with pinnate leaves and suspended rattling pods.
Reached Savannah, but find no word from home, and the money that I had ordered to be sent by express from Portage [Wisconsin] by my brother had not yet arrived. Feel dreadfully lonesome and poor. Went to the meanest looking lodging-house that I could find, on account of its cheapness.