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-large and beautiful filix ofmunda, growing in great 
tufts or clumps . After leaving the rivulet, we pafTed 
over a wet, hard, level glade or down, covered 
with a fine fhort grafs, with abundance of low faw 
palmetto, and a. few fhrubby pine trees, quercus ni- 
gra, quercus finuata or fcarlet oak : then the path 
defcends to a wet bay-gale ; the ground a hard, fine, 
white fand, covered with black flufh, which conti- 
nues above two miles, when it gently rifes the higher 
fand hills, and direclly after palfes through a fine 
grove of young long-leaved pines. The foil feemed 
here, loofe, brown, coarfe, fandy loam, though fer- 
tile. The afcent of the hill, ornamented with a va- 
riety and profufion of herbaceous plants and grafles, 
particularly amaryllis atamafco, clitoria, phlox, ipo- 
mea, convolvulus, verbena corymbofa, ruellia, viola, 
&c. A magnificent grove of {lately pines, fuc- 
ceeding to the expanfive wild plains we had a long 
time traverfed, had a pleafing eifecl:, roufing the 
faculties of the mind, awakening the imagination by 
its fublimity, and arrefting every active, inquifitive 
idea, by the variety of the fcenery, and the folemn 
fymphony of the fteady We (tern breezes, playing 
incefTantly, rifmg and falling through the thick and 
wavy foliage. 
The pine groves paffed, we immediately find our- 
felves on the entrance of the expanfive airy pine fo- 
re lis, on parallel chains of low fwelling mounds, 
called the Sand Hills ; their afcent fo eafy, as to be 
almofl imperceptible to the progreffive traveller ; 
yet. at a diftant view before us in fome degree ex- 
hibit the appearance of the mountainous fwell of 
the ocean immediately after a temped ; but yet, as 
we approach them, they infenfibly difappear, and 
feem to be loft - 9 and we fliould £>e ready to conclude 
all 
