TRAVELS IN 
and ponds more expanfive; the fummits of the ridge& 
more gravelly ; here and there, heaps or piles of 
rocks, emerging out of the fand and gravel : thefe 
rocks are the fame fort of concrete of fand and {hells 
as noticed at St. Juan's and the great lake. The 
vegetable productions nearly the fame as already 
mentioned. 
We gently defcended again over fand ridges,= 
crofTed a rapid brook, ripling over the gravelly bed* 
hurrying the tranfparent waters into a vail: and 
beautiful lake, through a fine fruitful orange grove,, 
which magnificently adorns the banks of the lake to 
a great diftance on each fide of the capes of the 
creek. This is a fine fituation for a capital town. 
Thefe waters are tributary to St. Juan's. 
We alighted to refrefh ourfelves, and adjull our 
packs. Here are evident figns and traces of a power- 
ful fettlement of the ancients* 
Sat off again, and continued travelling over at 
magnificent pine foreit, the ridges low, but their 
bafes extenfive, with proportionable plains. The 
fteady breezes gently and continually riling and fall- 
ing, fill the high lonefome forefts with an awful re- 
verential harmony, inexpreffibly fublime, and not to 
be enjoyed any where, but in thefe native wild In- 
dian regions. 
Croffing another large deep creek of St. Juan's, 
the country is a vaft level plain, and the foil good 
for the diftance of four or five miles, though light 
and fandy, producing a foreft of {lately pines and 
laurels, with fome others ; and a vaft profufion of 
herbage, fuch as rudbeckia, helianthus, filphium, 
polymnia, ruellia, verbena, rhexea, convolvulus, fo<- 
phora, 
