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ruins of the ancient Occonne town. The firfl: (tep 
after leaving the verdant beds of the hills, was a 
very high rocky chain of pointed hills, extremely 
well timbered with the following trees : Quercus 
tinctoria, Querc. alba, Querc. rubra, Fraxinus ex- 
celfior, Juglans hickory, various fpecies, Ulmus, 
Tilia, Acer faccharinum, Morus, juglans nigra, 
Juglans alba, Annona glabra, Robinia pfeudacacia, 
Magnolia acuminata, iEfculus fylvatica, with many 
more, particularly a fpecies of Robinia new to me, 
though perhaps the fame as figured and (lightly 
defcribed by Catefby in his Nat. "Hift, Carol. This 
beautiful flowering tree grows twenty and thirty feet 
high, with a crooked leaning trunk ; the branches 
fpread greatly, and wreath about, fonie almoil 
touching the ground ; however there appears a 
fingular pleafing wildnefs and freedom in its man- 
ner of growth ; the flender fubdivifions of the 
branches terminate with heavy compound panicles 
of rofe or pink coloured flowers, amidft a wreath 
of beautiful pinnated leaves. 
My next flight was up a very high peak, to the 
top of the Occonne mountain, where I refted ; and 
turning about, found that I was now in a very ele- 
vated fituation, from whence I enjoyed a view in- 
expreflibly magnificent and comprehensive. The 
mountainous wildernefs which I had lately tra- 
verfed, down to the region of Auguda, appear- 
ing regularly undulated as the great ocean after a 
tempeft ; the undulations gradually deprefTmg, yet 
perfectly regular, as the fquama of fifh, or imbri- 
cations of tile on a roof : the neareft ground to me 
of a perfect full green ; next more glaucous ; and 
laftly almoft blue as the ether with which the 
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