Travels in 
care I faved the greateft number of them ; though 
fome were naturally fo delicate and fragile, that it 
was impoffible to recover them. Here is a vaft body 
of land belonging to this eflate ; of high ridges fit 
for the culture of corn, indigo, cotton, batatas, &c. 
and of low fwamps and marines, which when pro- 
perly drained and tilled, would be fuitable for rice. 
Thefe rich low grounds, when drained and ridged, 
are as productive as the natural high land, and vaflly 
more durable, efpecially for fugar-cane, corn, and 
even indigo ; but this branch of agriculture being 
more expenfive, thefe rich lands are neglected, and 
the upland only is under culture 1 . The farm is fitu- 
ated on the Eafl fhore of the beautiful Long Lake, 
which is above two miles long, and near a mile broad. 
This lake communicates with the St. Juan, by the 
little river that I afcended, which is about one mile 
and an half in length, and thirty or forty yards wide. 
The river, as well as the lake, abounds with fim and 
wild fowl of various kinds, and incredible numbers, 
efpecially during the winter feafon, when the geefe 
and ducks arrive here from the north. 
New Smyrna-, a pretty thriving town, is a colo- 
ny of Creeks and Minorquines, ellablimed by Mr. 
Turnbull, on the Mufquito river, and very near its 
* New Smyrna is built on a high fhelly bluff, on the Weft bank of the 
South branch of Mufquito river, about ten-miles above the capes of that ri- 
ver, which is about thirty miles North of C.pe Canaveral, Lat. 28. I waa 
there about ten years ago, when the furveyor run the lines or precincts of 
the colony, where there was neither habitation nor cleared field. It was 
then a famous orange grove, the upper or South promontory of a ridge, 
nearly half a mile wide, and itretching North about forty miles, to the 
head of the North branch of the Muftiuito, to where the Tomoko river 
unites with it, nearly parallel to the fea coaft, and not above two miles 
acrofs to the fea beach. All this ridge was then one entire orange grove , 
with live oaks, magnolias, palms, and red bays, and others : I obferved 
then, near where New Smyrna now ftands, a fpacious Indian mount and 
avenue, which ftood near the banks of the river : the avenue ran on aftrait 
line back, through the groves, acrofs the ridge, and terminated at the verge 
of natural favannas and ponds. 
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