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the fame appearance with the great ioreit lait men- 
tioned ; its vegetable productions nearly the fame, 
excepting that the broken ridges by which we af- 
cend to the plain are of a better foil ; the vegeta- 
tive mould is fixed with particles of clay and fmall 
gravel, and the foil of a duiky brown colour, lying 
on a itratum of reddifh brown tough clay. The 
trees and Ihrubs are, Pinus tssda, great black Oak, 
Quercus tin&oria, rubra, Laurus, Sauafras, Mag- 
nolia grandiflora, Cornus Florida, Cercis, Halefia, 
Juglans, acuminata, Jugians exaltata, Andromeda 
arborea : and, by the fides of rivulets (which wind 
about and between thefe hills and fwamps, in the 
vales) Styrax latifolia, Ptelea trifoliata, Stewartia, 
Calycanthus, Chionanthus, Magnolia tripetala, A- 
zalea, and others. 
Thus have I endeavoured to give the reader a 
fhort and natural defcription of the vaft plain lying 
between the region of Augufta and the fea coaft ; 
for from Augufta the mountainous country begins 
(when compared to the level fandy plain already 
pafied), although it is at leaft an hundred and fifty 
miles weft, thence to the Cherokee or Apalachean 
mountains 5 and this fpace may with propriety be 
called the hilly country, every where fertile and de- 
lightful, continually replenifhed by innumerable ri- 
vulets, either courling about the fragrant hills, or 
fpringing from the rocky precipices, and forming 
many cafcades ; the coolnefs and purity of which 
waters invigorate the air of this otherwife hot and 
fultry climate. 
The village of Auguda is fituated on a rich and 
fertile plain, on the Savanna river ; the buildings 
are near its banks, and extend nearly two miles up 
to the cataracts, or falls, which are formed by the 
firft 
