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trified or cemented together, with fine white fand ; 
and thefe rocks were bedded in a ftratum of clay. 
I faw many fragments of the earthen ware of the 
ancient inhabitants, and bones of animals, among (I: 
the {hells, and mixed with the earth, to a great 
depth. This high melly bank continues, by gentle 
parallel ridges, near a quarter of., a mile back from 
the river, gradually diminifhing to the level of the 
fandy plains, which widen before and on each fide 
eaftward, to a feemingly unlimited diflance, and 
appear green and delightful, being covered with 
grafs and the Corypha repens, and thinly planted 
with trees of the long leaved, or Broom Pine, and 
decorated with clumps, or coppices, of fioriferous, 
evergreen, and aromatic fhrubs, and enamelled 
with patches of the beautiful little Kalmea ciliata. 
Thefe melly ridges have a vegetable furface of loofe 
black mould, very fertile, which naturally produces 
Orange groves, Live Oak, Laurus Borbonia, Pal- 
ma elata, Carica papaya, Sapindus, Liquidambar, 
Fraxinus, exelfior, Morus rubra, Ulmus, Tilia, 
Sambucus, Ptelea, Tallow-nut or Wild Lime? and 
many others. 
Mr. Rolle obtained from the crown a grant of 
forty thoufand acres of land, in any part of Eaft 
Florida, where the land was unlocated. It feems, 
his views were to take up his grant near St. Mark's, 
in the bay of Apalatchi; and he fat fail from England, 
with about one hundred families, for that place; 
but by contrary winds, and (trefs of weather, he 
milled his aim ; and being obliged to put into St. 
Juan's, he, with fome of the principal of his ad- 
herents, afcended the river in a boat, and being 
ftruck with its majefly, the grand fituations of its 
banks, and fertility of its lands, and at the fame 
time, considering the extenfive navigation of the 
river, 
