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rieties, Viburnum, Azalea, Rhus vernix, Prinos, 
varieties, Fothergilla, and a new Ihrub of great 
beauty and Angularity: it grows ere6t, feven or 
eight feet high; a multitude of ere<ft items arife 
from its root; thefe divide themfelves into afcend- 
ant branches, which are garni fhed with abundance 
of narrow lanceolate obtufe pointed leaves, of a 
light green, fmooth and fhining. Thefe branches, 
with their many fubdivifions, terminate in iimple 
racemes of pale incarnate Mowers, which make a 
fine appearance among the leaves; the flowers are 
fucceeded by defecated triquetrous pericarpi, each 
containing a Angle kernel. 
The loweft Tides of thefe favannas are generally 
joined by a great cane fwamp, varied with coppices 
and hornmocks of the various trees and fhrubs al- 
ready mentioned. In thefe fwamps feveral rivulets 
take their rife, which drain them and the adjoining 
favannas, and. thence meandering to the rivers 
through the forefts, with their banks decorated 
with fhrubs and trees. The earth under this level 
plain may be deferibed after the following manner : 
the upper furface, or vegetative mould, is a light 
fandy loam, generally nine inches or a foot deep, 
on a ftratum of cinereous coloured clay, except the 
land-hills, where the loofe fandy furface is much 
deeper upon the clay ; ftone of any fort, or gravel, 
is feldom feen. 
The next afeent, or flight, is of much greater 
and more abrupt elevation, and continues riling by 
broken ridges and narrow levels, or vales, for ten 
or fifteen miles, when we reft again on another 
extenftve nearly level plain of pine forefts, mixed 
with various other foreft trees, which continues 
weft forty or fifty miles farther, and exhibits much 
the 
