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up for provlfion. Thefe Grape vines do not climb 
into high trees, but creep along from one low 
fhrub to another, extending their branches to a 
great diftance horizontally round about ; and- it is 
very pleafing to behold the clufters pendant from 
the vines, almoft touching the earth ; indeed fome 
of them lie upon the ground. 
We now' entered a very remarkable grove of Dog 
wood trees (Cornus Florida), which continued nine 
or ten miles unalterable, except here and there a 
towering Magnolia grandiflora ; the land on which 
they (land is an exacl level ; the furface a mallow, 
loofe, black mould, on a ftratum of ftirT, yellowifh 
clay. Thefe trees were about twelve feet high, 
fpreading horizontally ; their limbs meeting and 
interlocking with each other, formed one vaft, 
fhady, cool grove, fo denfe and humid as to 
exclude the fun-beams, and prevent the intrufion 
of almoft every other vegetable, affording us a 
moft defirable fhelter from the fervid fun-beams 
at noon-day. This admirable grove by way 
of eminence has acquired the name of the Dog 
woods. 
During a progrefs of near feventy miles, through 
this high foreft, there conflantly prefented to view 
on one hand or the other, fpacious groves of this 
fine flowering tree, which muft, in the fpring feafon, 
when covered with bloffoms, prefent a moft p leafing 
fcene ; when at the fame time a variety of other 
fweet flirubs difplay their beauty, adorned in their 
gay apparel, as the Halefia, Stewartia, iEfculus pa- 
via, JEfc. alba, JFJc. Florid, ramis divaricatis, thyr- 
fis grandis, flofculis expanfis incarnatis, Azalea, &c. 
entangled with garlands of Bignonia crucigera. 
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