TRAVELS In 
bly vanifhing from fight, like the two points of a 
crefcent, foftly touching the horizon, reprefent the 
moil magnificent amphitheatre or circus perhaps in 
the whole world. The ground defcends gently from 
the gioves to the edge of the Cane-break, forming 
a delightful green gra-ffy lawn; The Canes are 
ten or twelve feet in height, and as thick as an or- 
dinary walking ftafF ; they grow fo clofe together, 
there is no penetrating them without previoufly cut- 
ting a road. We came up to this vafl plain where 
the ancient Spanifh highway crofTas it to Penfacola : 
there yet remain plain veftiges of the grand eaufe- 
way, which is open like a magnificent avenue, and the 
Indians have a bad road or pathway on it. The 
ground or foil of the plain is a perfectly black, rich ? 
foapy earth, like a ftiff clay or marie, wet and boggy 
near the more, but, further in, firm and hard enough 
in the fummer feafon, but wet and in fome place? 
under water during the winter. 
This vafl plain, together with the forefls conti- 
guous to it, if permitted (by the Siminoles who are 
Sovereigns of thefe realms) to be in poiielTion and 
under the culture of induflriqus planters and me- 
chanics, would in a little time exhibit other fcenes 
than it does at prefent, delightful as it is ; for by 
the arts of agriculture and commerce, almofl every 
defirable thing in life might be produced and made 
plentiful here, and thereby eftablifh a rich, popu- 
lous, and delightful region ; as this foil and climate 
appears to be of a nature, favourable for the pro- 
duction of almofl: all the fruits of the earth, as Corn*, 
Rice, Indigo, Sugar-cane, Flax, Cotton, Silk, Cochi- 
neal, and. all the varieties of efeiilent vegetables ; 
and 1 fuppofe no part of the earth affords Rich end- 
