TRAVELS IN 
fingle plantation, have been entirely deflroyed, to 
make room for the indigo, Cotton, Corn, Batatas, 
&c. or, as they fay, to extirpate the mufquitoes, al- 
ledging that groves near the dwellings are haunts 
and fhelters for thofe perfecuting infefts. Some plan- 
tations have not a fingle tree (landing ; and where 
any have been left, it is only a fmall coppice or clump, 
nakedly expofed and deflitute ; perhaps fifty or an 
hundred trees Handing near the dwelling-houfe, hav- 
ing no lofty cool grove of expanfive Live Oaks, 
Laurel Magnolias, and Palms, to made and protect 
them, exhibiting a mournful, fallow countenance ; 
their native perfectly formed and glofTy green fo- 
liage as if violated, defaced and torn to pieces by 
the bleak winds, fcorched by the burning fun-beams 
in fummer, and chilled by the winter frofts. 
In the evening I took up my quarters in the beau- 
tiful ifle in fight of Mount Royal. Next day, af- 
ter collecting what was new and worthy of particu- 
lar notice, I fet fail again, and called by the way at 
Mount Royal. In the evening arrived fafe at the 
{lores, bringing along with me valuable collections. 
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