...Or again we see the solitary dejected wood-pelican, alone on the topmost limb of a dead cypress; it looks extremely grave, sorrowful, and melancholy, as if in the deepest thought --an image used by Wordsworth in Book Third of . Of the Alatamaha Bartram says: I ascended this beautiful river, on whose fruitful banks the generous and true sons of liberty securely dwell, fifty miles above the white settlem...