NORTH AMERICA. 
Ha, Live Oaks, and others already noticed ; and the 
oppofite point of the crefcent, gradually retires with 
hommocky projecting points, indenting the grafly 
marines, and laftly terminates in infinite green 
plains and meadows, united with the Ikies and wa- 
ters of the lake. Such a natural landfcape, fuch a 
lural fcene, is not to be imitated by the united in- 
genuity and labour of man. At prefent the ground 
betwixt the town and the lake is adorned by an 
open grove of very tail Pine trees, which (landing 
at a confiderable diftance from each other, admit a 
delightful profpecr. of the fparkling waters. The 
lake abounds with various excellent £(h and wild 
fowl; there are incredible numbers of the latter, 
efpecially in the winter feafon, when they arrive 
here from the north to winter. 
The Indians abdicated the ancient Alachua town 
on the borders of the favanna, and built here, call- 
ing the new town Cufcowilla : their reafons for re- 
moving their habitation were on account of its ur>- 
healthinefs, occafioned, as they fay, by the (tench 
of the putrid h(h and reptiles in the fummer and au- 
tumn, driven on more by the alligators, and the 
exhalations from marfhes of the favanna, together 
with the perfecution of the mufquitoes. 
They plant but little here about the town ; onhr 
a fmall garden fpot at each habitation, confiding 
of a little Corn, Beans, Tobacco, Citruls, Mi 
Their plantation, which fupplies them with the chief 
of their vegetable' provifions, fuch as Zea, Con- 
volvulus batata, Cucurbitacitrulus, Cue. Jagenaria, 
Cue pepo, Cue. melopepo, Cue. verrucosa, Do- 
lichos varieties, &c« lies on the rich prolific lands 
bordering on the great Alachua favanna, about two 
miles diftance. This plantation is one common en- 
clafure, 
