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very civilly. I ftaid here all night, and had for 
fupper plenty of milk, butter, and very good cheefe 
of their own make, which is a novelty in the mari- 
time parts of Carolina and Georgia ; the inhabitants 
being chiefly fupplied with it from Europe and the 
northern Hates. The next day's progrefs, in ge- 
neral, prefented fcenes fimilar to the preceding, 
though the land is lower, more level and humid, 
and the produce more varied : high open for efts of 
{lately pines, flowery plains, and extenfive green 
favannas, chequered with the incarnate Chironia 
puicherrima, and Afclepias fragrans, perfumed the 
air whilfl they pleafed the eye. I met with fome 
troublefome cane fwamps, law herds of horned 
cattle, horfes and deer, and took notice of a pro- 
cumbent fpecies of Hibifcus, the leaves palmated, 
the flowers large and expanded, pale yellow and 
white, having a deep crimfon eye ; the whole plant, 
except the corolla, armed with ftifl 7 hair. I alfo 
faw a beautiful fpecies of Lupin, having pale 
green villous iingulate * leaves ; the flowers are 
difpofed in long erect fpikes ; fome plants produce 
flowers of the fmeft celeftial blue, others incarnate, 
and fome milk white, and though they all three 
feem to be varieties of one fpecies, yet they afTocl^ 
ate in feparate communities, fometimes approach-* 
ing near each other's border, or in light at a dis- 
tance. Their diilrids are fituated on dry fandy 
heights, in open phie forefts, which are naturally 
thin of undergrow th, and appear to great advan- 
tage ; generally where they are found, they occu- 
py many acres of furface. The vegetative mould 
is compofed of fine white fand, mixed, and colour- 
ed, with dilfolved and calcined vegetable fubftances ; 
* Lupinus breunky- foliis integerlmis oblootgis v iUofi? . 
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