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body feemed but as a light madow, and my exigence 
as a pleafing delirium^ for I fometimes doubted of 
its reality. I however, from that moment began to 
mend, until my health was perfectly reftored ; but 
it was feveral weeks before I could expofe my eyes 
to open day-light, and at laft I found my left eye 
considerably injured, which fuffered the greateft 
pain and weight of the difeafe. 
As foon as I acquired ftrength to walk about, and 
bear the lead impreffion of open day-light on my 
eyes, I made frequent, indeed I may fay daily ex- 
curfions in and about this ifland, drolling through 
its awful {hades, venerable groves and fublime fo- 
refts, confiding of the Live Oaks and Magnolia 
grandiflora, Laurus Borbonia, Olea Americana, 
Fagus fylvatica, Laur. Saffafras, Qiiercus hemi- 
fpherica, Tilia, Liquidambar ftyraciflua^ Morus, 
Gleditfia, Callicarpa, Halefia, &c. 
The illand is fix or feven miles in length, and 
four or five in width, including the fait mar flies and 
plains, which invefl it on every fide, I believe we 
may only except a narrow (hand at the South end 
of it, warned by Lake Borgone at the Regullets, 
which is a promontory compofed of banks of fea- 
fhells and fand caft up by the force of winds, and 
the furf of the Lake ; thefe (hells are chiefly a fmall 
fpecies of white clam {hells, called les coquilles. 
Here are a few fhrubs growing on thefe fhelly 
heighcs, viz. Rhamnus frangula, Sideroxyion, My- 
rica, Zanthoxylon clava Herculis, juniperus Ame- 
ricana, Lyfium falfum ; together with feveral new 
genera and fpecies of the herbaceous, and fuffruti- 
cofe tribes, Croton, Stillingia, &c. but particularly 
a fpecies of Mimofa (Mimofa virgata), which in 
refpect of the elegancy of its pinnated leaves, can 
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