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enjoyment of their earnings than their neighbours 
the EngliiTi : their drefs of their own manufactures* 
well wrought and neatly made up, yet not extrava- 
gant or foppifh : manners and converfation eafy, 
moral and entertaining. 
Next morning we fat off again on our return 
home, and called by the way at the Cliffs, which* 
is a perpendicular bank or bluff, rifiltg up out of 
the river near one hundred feet above the prefent 
furface of the water, whofe active current fweeps 
along by it. From eight or nine feet below the 
loamy vegetative mould at top, to within four or 
five feet of the water, thefe cliffs prefent to view 
ftrata of clay, marie and chalk* of all colours, as 
brown, red, yellow, white, blue and purple; there 
are feparate ftrata of thefe various colours, as well 
as mixed or particoloured : the loweft ftratum 
next the water is exactly of the fame black mud 
or rich foil as the adjacent low Cyprefs fvvamps, 
above and below the bluff ; and here in the cliffs 
we fee vaft flumps of Cyprefs and other trees, 
which at this day grow in thefe low, wet fwamps, 
and which range on a level with them. Thefe 
flumps are found, ftand upright, and feem to be 
rotted off about two or three feet above the fpread 
of their roots 5 their trunks, limbs, &c. lie in all 
directions about them. But when thefe fwampy 
for efts were growing, and by what caufe they 
were cut off and overwhelmed by the various 
ftrata of earth, which now rife near one hundred 
feet above, at the brink of the cliffs, and two or 
three times that height but a few hundred yards 
back, are enquiries perhaps not eafily anfwered. 
The fweliing heights rifing gradually over and 
beyond this precipice are now adorned with high 
foreffs of fhieJy Magnolia, Liquidambar, Fagus, 
m F f Quercus, 
