part of this Province (the reason I guesse of their being so 

 slender)." 



Farther up the river in what he calls the ' ' pine swamps ' ' he 

 found "alsoe Oake and severall other timber trees of a very 

 large seize." He confirms Hilton's report of finding peaches 

 and figs: "I sawe here besides the great number of peaches 

 which the more Northerly places doe alsoe abound in some 

 store of figge trees very large and faire both fruite and plants 

 and diverse grape vines which though growing without Culture 

 in the very throng of weedes and bushes were yett filled with 

 bunches of grapes to admiracon." On the coast islands he 

 notes "live Oake and large Cedar and bay trees." 



PERIOD OF SETTLEMENT 



Both Hilton andSandford were exploring in the interests of 

 the Lords Proprietors of Carolina who, favorably impressed with 

 their accounts of Port Royal, sent out the colony which set- 

 tled at Old Charles Town in 1670, but which first went ashore 

 at St. Helena, where we learn' that "ye Land was good Land 

 supplyed with many Peach trees, & a Competence of timber a 

 few figg trees & some Cedar here & theire. ' ' Occasional ref- 

 erences to trees appear in the documentary records of the set- 

 tlement at Charleston, as: "The Country proves good beyond 

 expectation and abounds in all things as good Oake, Ash . ." ^ 

 At one time Stephen BulP writes: "this next yeare I brought 

 hither seu 'all trees asorrenge Lemon Lyme Pomcitterne Pome- 

 grainett ffiggtrees & Plantons & they like the ground & thrive 

 & fflourishe very bravely;" and again he gives the information 

 that ".\corns" and "Hiccory Nutts" are "very good feedings 

 for hoggs." The "first fruits" sent from the province were 

 "12 Cedar Planks" presented by Sir John Yeamans* to Lord 



>Sh»fteibury papers. 166-8 2 Ibid, 188. 'Ibid 193, 223. 276. 'Ibid, 220, 225. 



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