TRAVELS IN 
* the tumuli, terraces, pofts or pillars, old Peach and 
Plumb or chards, &c. fufficiently teftify. Thefe 
vales and fwelling bafes of the lurrounding hills, 
afford vaft crops of excellent grafs and herbage fit 
for pailurage and hay ; of the latter, Plantago Vir- 
ginica, Sanguiforba, Geum, Fragaria, &c. The 
Panax quinquefolium, or Ginfeng, now a? r s 
plentifully on the North expofure of the M ! ' grow- 
ing out of the rich mellow humid $ai tfe amongil 
the i tones or fragments of rocks. 
Having crofTed the vales, I began to afcend again 
the more lofty ridges of hills ; then continued about 
right miles over more gentle pyramidal hills, nar- 
row vales and lawns, the foil exceedingly fertile, 
producing lofty forefts and odoriferous groves of 
Cal yean thus, near the banks of rivers, with Halefia, 
Philadelphus inodorus, Rhododendron ferrugineum, 
Azalea, Stewartia montana % fol. ovatis acuminatis 
ferratis, flor. niveo, ftaminum corona fulgida, peri* 
carp, pomum exfuccum, apice acuminata dehifcens, 
Cornus Florida, Styrax, all in full bloom, and de- 
corated with the following fweet roving climbers $ 
Bignonia fempervirens, Big. crucigera, Lonicera 
fempervirens, Rofa paniculata,. &c. 
Now at once the mount dWlfle) and difclofe to 
#iew the ample Occonne vak, encircled by a 
wreath of uniform hills ; their fwelling bafes clad 
in cheerful verdure, over which, ilTurng from be- 
tween the mountains, plays along a glittering river, 
meandering through the meadows. Crofling thefe 
at the upper end of the vale, I began to afcend the 
Occonne mountain. ' On the foot of the hills ars 
* This is a new fperfes of Stewartis, unknown to tne European "bota- 
z.. Is, Kit not xasntioasd in any catalogues, 
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