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pifera, Liquidambar ftyracidua, Moms rubra, 
Cercis tilia, Populus heterophylla, Platanus occi- 
dentals, Laurus faffafras, Lamms Borbonia, Ho- 
pea tincforia, Fraxinus excelfior, Nylfa, Ulmus, 
Juglans exaltata, Halefa, Stewartia. Nearly one 
third of this vail plain is what the inhabitants call 
fwamps, which are the fources of numerous frriall 
rivers and their branches: thefe they call fait ri- 
vers, becanfe the tides flow near to their fources, 
and generally carry a good depth and breadth of 
water for fmall craft, twenty or thirty miles up- 
wards from the fea, when they branch and (bread 
abroad like an open hand, interlocking with each 
other, and forming a chain of fwamps acrofs the 
Carolinas and Georgia, feveral hundred miles pa- 
rallel with the fea coaft. Thefe fwamps are fed 
and replenilhed conftantly by an infinite number of 
rivulets and rills, which ipring out of the firft bank 
or a:fcent : their native trees and fhrubs are, befides 
moft'of thofe already enumerated above, as follow: 
Acer rubrum, Nyffa aquatica, Chionanthus, Celtis, 
Fagus fylvatica, Sambricus; and the higher knolls 
afford beautiful clumps of Azalea nuda and Azalea 
vifcofa, Corypha palma, Corypha pumila, and Mag- 
nolia grandifora ; befides, the whole fur race of the 
ground between the trees and fhrubs appear to be 
occupied with canes (Arirndo gigantea) entangled 
with fefcoons of the floriferous Glycine frutefeens, 
Bignonia (empervirens. Glycine apios, Sniilax, va- 
rious fpecies, Bignonia crucigera, Bign. radicans, 
Lonicera fempervirens, and a multitude of other 
trees, fhrubs, and plants lefs confpicuous 3 and, in 
very wet places, Cupreflus difticha. The upper 
foil of thefe fwamps is a perfectly black, foapy, 
rich earth, or ftiff mud, two or three feet deep, 
on a foundation or ftratum of calcareous f'ffil, 
whick 
