130. Notices of the Floridas, &c. 
are a small, breed, but strong and active—the cattle of the 
interior are of a good size and form. It is expected that 
a pene! life will be adopted by many and found prof- 
The dry hammocks of Florida contain a variety of trees. 
{ noticed magnolia grandiflora, ash, hickory, black and 
sweet gum, red and white maple, hackberry, iron wood, 
umbrella tree, European holly, live oak, chestnut oak, red 
and black oak, Spanish oak, post oak, gray oak, overcup 
oak, and scarlet oak, sassafras, and cabbage tree. On 
the dry sand hills, pine, scrub oak, black jack oak. 
Open groves of large black oak, hickory, and yellow pine, 
are located on hills of a good soil in various parts of the 
rolling district of the interior; many are noticed south of 
Alachua. 
In swamps are found cypress, red maple, swamp, white 
and chestnut oak, white cedar, loblolly bay, red and white 
bay, loblolly pine, water oak, atid salle tree. 
Live oak of large size, in some instances thirty feet in 
biel scattered on the Ocklawaba and St. Johns, where 
the best has been culled out. ‘The live oak remaining on 
the feanda and Atlantic coast of Florida is small, and it is 
the general impression in Florida that there is little of 
this valuable timber on the western shore, but large groves 
of it have recently been discovered by Commodore Porter 
in the south-western part of the peninsula. 
From the hickory-nut and acorn, the Indians extract, by 
botliogs a clear and sweet oil, much used for culinary pur- 
ose 
Considerable groves of the bitter sweet orange occur in 
a wild state in Alachua, on the St. Johns, and the Atlantic 
coast, extending on some parts of the shore twenty miles; 
they may be rendered valuable by ingrafting the sweet 
orange. 
Among the shrubs of Florida are seen the running oak, 
porsnates. myrtle, reed cane, black-berry and whortles 
berry. he grape-vine grows luxuriantly in Florida: 
sept of the native varieties are excellent. Viney 
t doubtless be established to sake . A vin 
, d the china root, affords to the natives a substitute for 
