NORTH AMERICA. 3 t 
rieties, Viburnum, Azalea, Rhus vernix, Prinos, 
varieties, Fothergilla, and a new fhrub of great 
beauty and Angularity : it grows erect, feven or 
eight feet high ; a multitude of erect items ariie 
from its root ; thefe divide themfelves into afcend- 
ant branches, which are garnifhed with abundance 
of narrow lanceolate obtufe pointed leaves, of a 
light green, fmooth and mining. Thefe branches, 
with their many fuhdivifions, terminate in Ample 
racemes of pale incarnate flowers, which make a 
fine appearance among the leaves ; the flowers are 
fucceeded by deAccated triquetrous pericarpi, each 
containing a Angle kernel. 
The loweft fides of thefe favannas are generally 
joined by a great cane fwamp, varied with coppices 
and hommocks of the various trees and fhrubs al- 
ready mentioned. In thefe fwamps feveral rivulets 
take their rife, which drain them and the adjoining 
favannas, and thence meandering to the rivers 
through the forefts, with their banks decorated with 
fhrubs and trees. The earth under this level plain 
may be defcribed after the following manner i the 
upper furface, or vegetative mould, is a light fandy 
loam, generally nine inches or a foot deep, on a 
ftratum of cinereous coloured clay, except the 
fand-hills, where the loofe fandy furface is much 
deeper upon the clay \ (tone of any fort, or gravel, 
is feldom feen. 
The next afcent, or flight, is of much greater 
and more abrupt elevation, and continues rifing by 
broken ridges and narrow levels, or vales, for ten 
or fifteen miles, when we reft again on another 
extenfive nearly level plain of pine forefts, mixed 
with various other foreft trees, which continues 
weft forty or fifty miles farther, and exhibits much 
the 
