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On the (ame account that the high Land wants tillable Earth, and 
is barren, the low Land is very deep of fat and black Mould in 
fome places a great many yards deep, fo chat tne fat, black Earth 
of Olaus Rudbeck, would be no certain Argument of the length of 
time from the Deluge, there being none in the high Land, and a great 
deal more than enough in the low. Hence it comes that all low 
Land, near high, is the moft fertile, and all high Land is {carce 
cultivated, the one being extreamly fertile, the other nor. 
Allthe high Land is covered with Woods, which are great high 
Trees, fome of them very good Timber; they are very call flen- 
der, ftraight, and one would wonder how fuch Trees could grow 
in fuch a barren Soil, fothick together, among the Rocks. The 
Trees fend down their fibrous Roots into the Crannies of the Rocks, 
where here and there they meet with little Receptacles, or natural 
Bafins, wherein the Rain water is preferv’d not only for the Roots of 
the Frees to give them Nourifhment ; but likewile to give Birds and 
Infecis drink, and fometimes Paffengers on the Roads. It is like- 
wile ordinary for Rain-water co be kept in the Spurs of Corton, and 
other Trees made hollow, and to be drunk by Hunters, and others, 
fucking it out with a wild Cane. . 
"Tis a very. ftrange thing to fee in how fhort a time a Plantation 
formerly clear'd of Trees and Shrubs, will grow foul, which comes 
from two caufes ; the one the not ftubbing up of the Roots, whence 
arife young Sprouts, and the other the Fertility of the Soil. The 
Settlements and Plantations of, not only the Ladsans, but even the Spa- - 
wiards, being quite overgrown with tall Trees, fo that chere were no 
Footfteps of {uch a thing left, were it not for old Palifadoes, Build- 
ings, Orange- Walks, exc. which fhew plainly the formerly clear’d 
places where Plantations have been, | 
There are the fame Layers of Earth one over another, as are to 
be met with in Europe. And the fame difference of Soil, appears 
here, that does in England, on digging of Wells, exc, 
Moft of the Savannas, or Plains fit for Pafture, and clear'd of 
Wood like our Meadow-Land, lie on the South fide of the Ifland, 
where one may ride a great many Miles without meeting any the 
leaft Alcent, Some of thefe Plains are within Land encircled with 
Hills, asthe Magotty Savanna, we. Tis probable, thefe being void 
altogether of Trees, that they are either fo naturally, or rather have 
been clear'd by the Indians, in order to plant their Maiz there, and 
ether Provifions, ; | 
Thefe Savannas an{wer our Meadow-Grounds in Europe, and 
after Seafons, i.e, Rain, ate very green and pleafant, but after long 
droughts are very much parch:d and withered. ri 
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