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Magnolia glauca, Magnolia pyramidita, Cercis, 
Ralmia auguftifolia, Kalrnia ciliata, Chionanthus, 
Cephalanthos, iEfcuIus parva ; and the interme- 
diate fpaces, furrounding and lying between the 
ridges and fav annas, are interfered with plains of 
the dwarf prickly fan-leaved Palmetto, and lawns 
of grafs variegated with (lately trees of the great 
Broom-Pine, and the fpreading ever-green Water- 
Oak, either difpofed in clumps, or fcatteringly 
planted by nature. The upper iurface, or vegeta- 
tive foil of the ifland, lies on a foundation, or ftra- 
tum, of tenacious cinereous-coloured clay, which 
perhaps is the principal fupport of the vail growth 
of timber that arifes from the fur-face, which is lit- 
tle more than a mixture of fine white fand and dif- 
folved vegetables, ferving as a nurfery bed to hatch 
or bring into exiftence the infant plant, and to fup- 
ply it with aliment and food, fuitabie to its delicacy 
and tender frame, until the roots, acquiring fuffi- 
cient extent and folidity to lay hold of the clay, loon 
attain a magnitude and liability fufficient to main- 
tain its ftationo Probably if this clay were dug out 
and cafi upon the furface, after being meliorated by 
the faline or nitrous qualities of the air, it would 
kindly incorporate with the locfe fand, and become 
a productive and lafling manure. 
. The roebuck, or deer, are numerous on this 
ifland ; the tyger, wolf, and bear, hold yet fome 
polfeflion ; as alfo raccoons, foxes, hares, fquirrels, 
rats, and mice, but I think no moles. There is a 
large ground rat, more than twice the fize of the 
common Norway rat. In the night time it throws 
out the earth, forming little mounds, or hillocks, 
oppolfums are here in abundance, as alfo pole-cats, 
wild-cats, rattle-fnakes, glafs-fnake, coach-whip 
fnake, and a variety of other ferpents. 
Here 
