NORTH AMERICA. 
meats ; the furface of the leaves, and of the whole 
plant, is fmooth and polifhed. Another fpecies 
of hibifcus, worthy of particular notice, is like- 
wife a tali flourifhing plant ; feveral Itrong ftems 
arife from a root, five, fix 3 and feven feet high, 
embellifhed with ovate lanciolate leaves, covered 
with a fine down on their nether furfaces : the 
flowers are very large, and of a deep incarnate co- 
lour. 
The laft we {hall now mention feems nearly al- 
lied to the alcea ; the flowers are a fize lefs than 
the hibifcus, and of a fine damafk rofe colour, and 
are produced in great profufion on the tall pyrami- 
dal ftems. 
The lobelia cardinalis grows in great plenty here, 
and has a moll fplendid appearance amidft extenfive 
meadows of the golden corymbous jacobea (fenecio 
jacobea) and odorous pancratium. 
Having fmifhed my tour on this princely ifland, 
I prepared for repofe. A calm evening had fuc- 
needed the ftormy day. The late tumultuous winds 
had now ceafed, the face of the lake had become 
placid, and the ikies ferene ; the balmy winds 
breathed the animating odours of the groves around 
me ; and as I reclined on the elevated banks of the 
lake, at the foot of a live oak., I enjoyed the prof- 
peel: of its wide waters, its fringed "coafts, and the 
diftant horizon. 
The fquadrons of aquatic fowls, emerging out 
of the water, and haftening to their leafy coverts on 
Jhore, clofed the varied fcenes of the paft day. I 
was lulled afleep by the mixed founds of the wearied 
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