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a large town of the Aborigines. It was fituated o& 
an eminence, near the banks of the lake, and com- 
manded a comprehenfive and charming profpeft of 
the waters, iflands, eaft and weft mores of the lake, 
the capes, the bay, and Mount Royal ; and to the 
ibuth the view is in a manner infinite, where the 
ikies and waters feem to unite. On the fite of this 
ancient town, ftands a very pompous Indian mount, 
or conical pyramid of earth, from which runs in a 
ilrait line a grand avenue or Indian highway^ 
through a magnificent grove of magnolias, live 
oaks, palms, and orange trees, terminating at the 
verge of a large green level favanna. This ifland 
appears to have been well inhabited, as is very evi- 
dent, from the quantities of fragments of Indian 
earthenware, bones of animals and other remains, 
particularly in the fhelly heights and ridges ail over 
the ifland. There are no habitations at prefent on 
the iflandg but a great number of deer, turkeys, 
bears, wolves, wild cats, fquirrels, racoons, and 
opofTums. The bears are invited here to partake 
of the fruit of the orange tree, which they are im- 
moderately fond of ; and both they and turkeys are 
made extremely fat and delicious, from their feeding 
on the fweet acorns of the live oak. 
There grow on this ifland many curious fhrubs, 
particularly a beautiful fpecies of lantana (perhaps 
lant. camerara, Lin. SyfL Yeget. p. 473). It 
grows in coppices in old fields, about five or fix 
feet high, the branches adorned with rough fer- 
rated leaves, which fit oppofite, and the twigs ter- 
minated with umbelliferous tufts of orange coloured 
bloffoms, which are fucceeded by a clufter of fmail 
blue berries : the flowers are of various colours, on 
ihe fame plant, and even in the fame clufter, as 
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