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TRAVELS IN 
CHiercus, Laurus, Morus, Juglans, Tilia, Ha« 
lelia, /Efculus, Caliicarpa, Liriodendron, &c. Ar- 
rived in the evening at the plantation below the 
Cliffs, and the next day got fafe back to my friend's 
habitation. 
. Obferved few vegetable productions different 
from what grow in Carolina and Georgia ; per- 
haps in the fpring and early fummer feafon, here 
may be fome new plants, particularly in the high 
forefts and ridges, at fome diflance from the ri- 
ver : there is however growing in the rich high 
lands, near on the banks of the river, which I ob- 
ferved in the fettiement of Baton Rouge, an ar- 
borefcent aromatic vine, which mounts to the tops 
of the higheft trees, by twifting or writhing fpir- 
ally round them; fome of thefe vines are as 
thick as a man's leg, of a foft fpungy texture, 
and flexible, covered with a Cinnamon coloured 
bark, which is highly aromatic or fpicy. The 
large oblong leaves fit oppofite on the branches, 
and are of a full deep green colour ; but its fea- 
fon of flowering being pad, and the feed fcatter- 
ed, I am entirely ignorant to what genus it be- 
longs ; perhaps it is a non-defcript or new genus. 
Here is likewife a new and beautiful fpecies of 
Verbena, with decumbent branches and lacerat- 
ed deep green leaves ; the branches terminate 
with ccrymbi of violet blue flowers : this pretty 
plant grows in old fields where there is a good 
foil. ; 
The fever e diforder in my eyes fubverted the 
plan of my peregrinations, and contracted the 
ipan of my pilgrimage South- Weft- ward. This 
difappointment affected me very fenfibly, but rc- 
fignation and feafon renaming their empire over 
my 
