NORTH - AMERICA. 
and on the high fandy knolls and fwelling ridges, 
Quercus nigra, Quercus flammula, Quercus in can a, 
with various other trees and fhrubs as already noted, 
inhabiting fuch fituations. The rivulets however 
exhibited a different appearance ; they are fhallower, 
courfe more fwiftly over gravelly beds, and their 
banks are adorned with Illicium groves, Magnolias, 
Azaleas, Halefia, Andromedas, &c. The higher! 
hills near large creeks afford high forefls with abun- 
dance of Chefnut trees. 
We now approached the bay Mobile, gently as- 
cending a hilly diflricl, being the higheft foreft ad- 
joining the extenfive rich low lands of the river: 
thefe heights are foniewhat encumbered with peb- 
bles, fragments and cliffs of rufty ferruginous rocks ; 
the (tones were ponderous and indicated very rich 
iron ore : here was a fmall diiiriel of good land, 
on the acclivities and bales of thefe ridges, and a 
level foreft below, watered by a fine creek, running 
into the Mobile. From hence we proceeded, again 
descending, and travelled about nine miles generally 
over a level country confiding of favannas, Cane 
fwamps, and gentle rifing knolls, producing Pinus 
tseda, Nylfa fylvatica, Quercus rubra, Fagus cafta- 
nea, Fraxinus, with other trees. Arrived at Ta- 
enia, a pretty high bluff, on the Eaftem channel 
of the great Mobile river, about thirty miles above 
fort Coiide, or city of Mobile, at the head of the 
bay. 
Next day early in the morning I embarked in a 
boat, and proceeded for Mobile, along the banks of 
iflands (near twenty miles) which lay in the middle 
of the river, between the Eaflern and Weftern 
mores of the main : the banks of thefe low flat rich 
iflands are well cultivated, having on them extenfive 
D d farms 
