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wore ill flower, ?;{>nie merely tSk^ slltttle^ 

 wliih' others ]i;nl attained the jiize of larsje trees ; 

 but the whole being in ilill bloonij bestowed a 

 pleasing appent^ee ufii^ ^ otlecwi^ dull 

 scenefyw m yel the otdy teees 



wliirli we had seen in full l)lossora, and in- 

 deed every t.wijx was so thiekly studded witli 

 fragrant flowers of golden hue, as almost to con- 

 ceal Ae foliage, proving sources of ^4facti?«i # 

 & multitude of insects whicli revelled iu 1^ 

 sweets they cot^$3XU0id. 



Occasionally, ainont^ the trees or bushes, a 

 huge mound of clay, conical in form^ would 

 attract the traYe|ler% attentlGdl j Ihes^ wej^piJo- 

 ducfid Isy tlie Mbcttffii <if A spiles of Tmntiey^ 

 digenous to the colony. I have seen the mounds 

 from four to five feet in elevation, ami two or 

 three feet in diameter, firmly constructed of red 

 or irhite clay ; they furnish persons, about to 

 erect & mud^huti inih «a. 4^cellent inateri^, 

 ready prepared for itge ; and tlien many of them, 

 too;ether with myriads of their inhabitants, are 

 destroyed for the purpose- 

 About nin® mUm EriHte, we aisrived at a 

 fl^p liill^ tip which we were obliged to feftdi 

 OUrltoseSj. and there was a eorrcspondingSkeQp 

 (lrs<'i*nt on the ojjposite sidt- of the ridg'e ; near 

 it was a lofty hill, surmounted by a bare mass 



