north America. 
that were condemned to die; as the area k fur- 
rounded by a bank, and fometimes two of them, 
one behind and above the other, as feats, to ac- 
commodate the fpectators at fuch tragical fcenes, as 
well as the exhibition of games, mows, and dances. 
From the river St. Juans, foutherly to the point of 
the peninfula of Florida, are to be feen high pyra- 
midal mounts, with fpacious and extenfive avenues, 
leading from them out of the town, to an artificial 
lake or pond of water ; thefe are evidently defigned 
in part for ornament or monuments of magnificence, 
to perpetuate the power and grandeur of the nation, 
and not inconfiderable neither, for they exhibit 
fcenes of power and grandeur, and muft have been 
public edifices. 
The great mounts, highways, and artificial lalces 
lip S. Juans 3 on the Eaft more, juft at the entrance 
pt the great Lake George, one on the oppofite 
ihore, on the bank of the Little Lake, another on 
punn's Ifland, a little below Charlotteville, one on 
the large beautiful ifland juft: without the Capes of 
Cape George, in the fight of Mount Royal, and a 
fpacious one on the Weft banks of the Mufquitoe 
river near New Smyrna, are the moft remarkable 
of this fort that occurred to me ; but undoubtedly 
many more are yet to be difcovered farther South 
in the peninfula ; however I obferved none Weft- 
ward, after I left St. Juans on my journey to little 
St. Juan, near the bay of 4palache. 
But in all the region of the Mufcogulge country, 
South-Weft from the Oakmulge River quite to the 
Tallapoofe, down to the city of Mobile, and thence 
along the fea coft, to the MifTiffippi, I faw no figns 
of mountains or highways, except at Taenia, where 
were feveral inconfiderable conical mountains ; and 
