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requefted me to flay and dine with him ; and on 
my pleading, for excufe, the neceffity of my being 
at Frederica, " Yet, I pray you, flay a little, i will 
foon have fome refreshment for you." Prefently 
was laid before us a plentiful repall of venifon, &c. ; 
our drink being honey and water, ftrengthened by 
the addition of brandy. Our rural table was fpread 
under the fhadow of Oaks, Palms, and Sweet Bays, 
fanned by the lively falubrious breezes wafted from 
the fpicy groves. Our mufic was the refponfive 
love-lays of the painted nonpareil, and the alert 
and gay mock-bird ; whilrt the brilliant humming- 
bird darted through the flowery groves, fufpended 
in air, and drank neclar from the flowers of the 
yellow Jafmine, Lonicera, Andromeda, and fweet 
Azalea. 
But yet, how awfully great and fublime is the 
majeltic fcene eaftward ! the folemn found of the 
beating furf It r ikes our ears ; the darning of yon 
liquid mountains, like mighty giants, in vain a Hail 
the Ikies ; they are beaten back, and fall pr oft rate 
upon the mores of the trembling illand. 
Taking leave of my fylvan friend, I fat off on 
my return to the town, where I arrived before 
night, having obferved, on the way, many curious 
vegetable productions, particularly Corypha Palma 
(or great Cabbage Palm) Corypha purnila, Corypha 
repens, frondibus expanfis, flabelliformibus, piica- 
tis, flipit. fpinofis (Dwarf Saw Palmetto) Corypha 
obliqua, caudice arboreo adfcendente, frondibus 
expanfis, flabelliformibus, plicatis, flipit. ferratis > 
Cyrilla, Tiliandfia mono ft achy a, Till, lingulata, or 
Wild Pine ; both thefe curious vegetables are pa- 
rafites, living on the fubftance of others, part jcu- 
larly on the limbs of the Live Oak $ the latter fpe- 
cies 
