NORTH AMERICA. 
I fuppofe the perpendicular elevation of the ground 
Hiay be twenty or thirty feet. There are near thirty 
habitations confhucied after the mode of Cufcc- 
willa ; but here is a more fpacious and neat council- 
houfe. 
Thefe Indians have large handfome canoes, which 
they form out of the trunks of Cyprefs trees (Cu- 
prelTus difiicha), fome of them commodious enough 
to accommodate twenty or thirty warriors. In thefe 
large canoes they defcend the river on trading and 
hunting expeditions to the fea coaft, neighbouring 
iflands and keys, quite to the point of Florida, and 
fometimes acrofs the gulph, extending their naviga- 
tions to the Bahama iflands and even to Cuba : a 
crew of thefe adventurers had juft arrived, having 
returned from Cuba but a few days before our arri- 
val, with a cargo of fpirituous liquors, Coffee, Su- 
gar, and Tobacco. One of them politely prefented 
me with a choice piece of Tobacco, which he told 
me hchad received from the governor of Cubar 
They deal in the way of barter, carrying with 
them deer ikins, furs, dry fifh, bees-wax, honey, 
bear's oil, and fome other articles. They fay the 
Spaniards receive them very friendly, and treat 
them with thebeft fpirituous liquors. 
The Spaniards of Cuba likewife trade here or at 
St. Mark's, and other fea ports on the weft coaft of 
the ifthmus, in fmall (loops ; particularly at the bay 
of Carlos, where are excellent hiking banks and 
grounds ; not far from which is a confiderable town 
of the Siminoles, where they take great quantities 
of fifh, which they fait and cure on ihore, and barter 
with the Indians and traders for (kins, furs, &c. and 
return with their cargoes to Cuba, 
The 
