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thirds of the whole ; and, at a distance, might be 

 mistaken for the same tree, as they both run up into 

 pointed spire-like tops ; but they are easily distin- 

 guished on coming nearer, from their colour, the 

 cypress being of a much paler green, or shade, than 

 the other. The trees, in general, grow with great 

 vigour, and are all of a large size. 



There is but little variety of other vegetable pro- 

 ductions, though, doubtless, several had not yet 

 sprung up at the early season when we visited the 

 place, and many more might be hid from the narrow 

 sphere of our researches. About the rocks, and 

 verge of the woods, we found strawberry- plants, 

 some rasberry, currant, and gooseberry bushes, 

 which were all in a most flourishing state ; with a few 

 small black alder-trees. There are likewise a species 

 of sow-thistle ; goose-grass; some crow's-foot, which 

 has a very fine crimson flower ; and two sorts of an- 

 thericum ; one with a large orange-flower, and the 

 other with a blue one. We also found, in these situ- 

 ations, some wild rose-bushes, which were just bud- 

 ding ; a great quantity of young leeks, with tri- 

 angular leaves ; a small sort of grass, and some wa- 

 ter-cresses, which grow about the sides of the rills ; 

 besides great abundance of andromeda. Within the 

 woods, besides two sorts of underwood shrubs un- 

 known to us, are mosses and ferns. Of the first of 

 which, are seven or eight different sorts ; of the last 

 not above three or four ; and the species of both are 

 mostly such as are common to Europe and America. 



As the season of the year was unfavourable to our 

 gaining much knowledge of the vegetable productions 

 of this country, so our own situation while there, put 

 it out of our power to learn much about its animals; 

 for as the want of water made it necessary that we 

 should enter the Sound at first, the unforeseen acci- 

 dents which happened afterward, though they length- 

 ened our stay, were rather unfavourable to our ob- 

 taining any knowledge of this kind. The emergency 



