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would fpeedily return with merchandize as hereto- 
fore ; all which was cheerfully confented to, afluring 
them their willies and fentiments fully coincided with 
ours. 
The chief trader, intending to mew me fome re- 
markable barren plains, on our return to our en- 
campment, about noon we fat 6ff : when we came 
within fight of them, I was ftruck with aftonHh- 
ment at their dreary appearance ; the view South- 
erly feemed endlefs waft es, prefenting rocky, gra- 
velly and fandy barren plains, producing fcarcely 
any vegetable fubfiances, except a few fhrubby 
crooked Pine trees, growing out of heaps of white 
rocks, which reprefented ruins of villages, planted 
over the plains ; with clumps of mean fhriibs, which 
ferved only to perpetuate the perfecuting power 
and rage of fire, and to teftify the aridity of the 
foil. The fhrubs I obferved were chiefly the fol- 
lowing ; Myrica cerifera, two or three varieties, one 
of which is very dwarhm, the leaves fma-11, yet 
toothed or finuated, of a yellowim green goIouf, 
owing to a farinaceous pubeicence or veficula which 
covers their furfaces ; Prinos, varieties, Andromeda 
ferruginea, Andr. nitida, varieties, Rhamnus fran- 
gula, Sideroxylon fericium, Ilex aquifolium, Ilex 
myrtifolium, Empetrum, Kalmia ciliata, Caffine, and 
a great variety of fhrub Oaks, evergreen and deci- 
duous, fome of them fingularly beautiful ; Cory- 
pha repens ; with a great variety of herbage, par- 
ticularly Cacalia, Prenanthus, Chryfocoma, Heli- 
anthus, Silphium, Lobelia, Globularia, Helenium, 
Polygala, varieties, Clinopodium, Caclus, various 
fpecies, Euphorbia, various fpecies, Afclepias car-- 
nofa, very beautiful and fmgular, Sophora, Dian« 
thus, Gift us, Sifymbrium, Pedicularis, Gerardia, 
Lechea s 
