NORTH AMERICA. 
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We foon entered a level, grafly plain^ inter- 
fperfed with low, fpreading, three-leaved Pine-trees, 
large patches of low fhrubs, confiding of Prinos 
glaber, low Myrica, Kalmia glauca, Andromedas of 
feveral fpecies, and many other fhrubs, with patches 
of Palmetto. We continued travelling through 
this favanna or bay-gale, near two miles, when the 
land afcends a little ; we then entered a hommock 
or dark grove, confifting of various kinds of trees, 
as the Magnolia grandiflora, Corypha palma, Citrus 
Aurantium, Quercus fempervirens, Morus rubra, 
Ulmus fylvatica, Tilia, Juglans cinerea, iEfculus pa- 
via, Liguidambar, Laurus Borbonia, Hopea tin&o- 
ria, Cercis, Cornus Florida, Halefia diptera, Ha- 
lefia tetraptera, Olea Americana, Callicarpa, An- 
dromeda arborea, Sideroxylon fericium, Sid. tenax. 
"Vitis labrufca, Hedera arborea, Hedera quinquefo- 
lia, Rhamnus volubilis, Prunus Caroliniana (pr. flor, 
racemofis, foliis fempervirentibus, lato-lanceolatis, 
acuminatis, ferratis) Fagus fylvatica, Zanthoxylon 
clava Herculis, Acer rubrum, Acer negundo, Frax- 
inus excelfior, with many others already mention- 
ed. The land ftill gently rifing, the foil fertile, 
loofe, loamy, and of a dark brown colour. This 
continues near a mile ; when at once opens to view 
the moft hidden tranfition from darknefs to light, 
that can pombly be exhibited in a natural land- 
scape. 
The extenfive Alachua favanna is a level green 
plain, above fifteen miles over, fifty miles in cir- 
cumference, and fcarcely a tree or bufb of any kind 
to be feen on it. It is encircled with high, Hoping 
hills, covered with waving forefts and fragrant 
Orange groves, rifing from an exuberantly fertile foil. 
The towering Magnolia grandiflora and tranfcen- 
dent 
