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phora, glycine, vitia, clitorea, ipomea, urtica, falvia 
graveolens, viola, and many more. How cheerful 
and focial is the rural converfe of the various tribes 
of tree frogs, whiHt they look to heaven for prolific 
mowers ! How harmonious the fhrill tuneful fongs 
of the wood thrulh, and the foothing love lays of 
the amorous cuckoo *, feated in the cool leafy- 
branches of the (lately magnolias and fhadowy elms, 
maples and liquidambar, together with gigantic fa- 
gus fylvatica, which made and perfume the fequef- 
tered groves ! How unexpected and enchanting the 
enjoyment, after traverfmg a burning fandy de- 
left! 
Now, again, we behold the open pine forefts, and 
afcend the fandy hills, which continue for fome miles, 
then gently defcend again, when a level expanfive 
favanna plain prefents itielf to view, which, after 
entering and proceeding on, becomes wet and co- 
vered by a fine (hort grafs, with extenfive parterres 
of the dwarf creeping palmetto, its itipes fharply 
toothed or ferrated, together with clumps of low 
fhrubs, as kalmia, Andromeda, annona pygmea, my- 
rica cerifera, empetrum, vaccinium, and others. 
Vie now afcend a little again, and pafs through a 
narrow pine foreft ; when fuddenly opens to view a 
vafily extenfive and fedgy marfh, expanding South- 
erly like an open fan, feemingly as boundlefs as the 
great ocean ; our road croffing the head of itt, 
eibout three hundred yards over ; the bottom here 
was hard fand, a foot or more under a foft muddy 
furface. The traders "informed me, that thefe va(t 
marines lie on the borders of a great lake, many 
miles in length, in magnitude exceeding Lake 
* CVcuItts Carolinienfis, 
N 3 George 
