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lent quality for the production of every vegetable 
fuited to the climate, and feeming peculiarly adapt- 
ed for the cultivation of Vines (Vitis vinifera), 
Olives (Olea Europea), the Almond tree (Amyg- 
dalus communis), Fig (Ficus carica), and perhaps 
the Pomgranate, (Punica granatum), as well as 
Peaches (Amyg. Perfica), Prunus, Pyfus, of every 
variety. I palled again fteep rocky afcents, and. 
then rich levels, where grew many trees and plants 
common in Pennfylvania, New- York and even 
Canada, as Pinus itrobus, Pin. fylveftris, Pin. abies. 
Acer faccharinum, Acer ftriatum, f. Pennfylvani- 
cum, Populus tremula, Betula nigra, Juglans alba, 
&c. ; but what feems remarkable, the yellow Jef- 
famine (Bignonia fempervirens), which is killed by 
a very flight froft in the open air in Pennfylvania, 
here, on the fummits of the Cherokee mountains 
aflbciates with the Canadian vegetables, and ap- 
pears roving with them in perfect bloom and gaiety ; 
as likewife Halefia diptera, and Hal. tetraptera, 
mountain Stewartia, Styrax, Ptelea, iEfculus pavia; 
but all thefe bear our hardeft frofts in Pennfylvania, 
Now I enter a charming narrow vale, through 
which flows a rapid large creek, on whole banks 
are happily aflbciated the fhrubs already recited, 
together with the following; Staphylsea, Enonl- 
mus Americana, Hamamelis, Azalea/ various {pe- 
des, Ariftolochia frutefcens, f. odoratiflima, which 
rambles over the trees and fhrubs on the prolific 
banks of thefe mountain brooks. Paffed through 
magnificent high forefts, and then came upon the 
borders of an ample meadow on the left, embroi- 
dered by the fhade of a high circular amphitheatre 
pf hills, the circular ridges rifing magnificently one 
over the other. On the green turfy hafes of 'thefe 
afceitfs appear the ruins of a town of the ancients. 
The 
