ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY. 



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Atlantic; and, in addition to these, on the west, 

 the cherry-tree, horse -chesnut, papaw, magnolia^ 

 sumac, &c. all of which indicate a productive soil. 

 These kinds of forest trees, however, do not any- 

 where entirely exclude the resinous, which appear 

 scattered throughout all the plains, and collected in 

 clumps on the mountains, even of the lower order, 

 as the chain in Virginia called the South-West : and 

 it is a singular circumstance, that here tliey deviate 

 from their customary designation of sterility, for the 

 fat and deep red soil of this chain is extremely fer- 

 tile. • ^ 

 The third district, or northern forest, likew^ise 

 composed of pines, firs, larches, cedars, cypresses, 

 Sec. begins from the connnes of the former, covers 

 the north of New York, the interior of Connecticut, 

 and the Massachusetts, gives its name to the state of 

 Vermont, and leaving to the deciduous forest-trees 

 only the banks of the rivers and their alluvions, ex- 

 tends by the way of Canada toward the north, where 

 it soon gives way to the juniper, and the meagre 

 shrubs, thinly scattered among the deserts of the 

 polar circle. 



