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the fame appearance with the great foreft laft men- 
tioned; its vegetable productions nearly the fame, 
excepting that the broken ridges by which we af- 
cend to the plain are of a better foil ; the vegeta- 
tive mould is mixed with particles of clay and fmall 
gravel, and the foil of a dufky brown colour, lying 
on a ftratum of reddifii brown tough clay. The 
trees and fhrubs are, Finns treda, great black Oak, 
Quercus tin&oria, rubra, Laurus, Saftafras, Mag- 
nolia grandiflora, Cornus Florida, Cercis, Halefia, 
Juglans acuminata, Juglans exaltata, Andromeda 
arborea : and, by the Tides of rivulets (which wind 
about and between thefe hills and fwamps, in the 
vales) Sty rax latifolia, Ptelea trifoliata, Stewartia, 
Calycanthus, Chionanthus, Magnolia tripetala, A- 
zalea, and others. 
Thus have I endeavoured to give the reader a 
fhort and natural defcription of the vail plain lying 
between the region of Augufta and the fea coafr ; 
for from Augufta the mountainous country begins- 
(when compared to the level Tandy plain already 
palfed), although it is at leaft an hundred and fifty 
miles welt, thence to the Cherokee or Apalachean 
mountains ; and this fpace may with propriety be 
called the hilly country, every where fertile and de- 
lightful, continually replenifhed by innumerable ri- 
vulets, either courfing about the fragrant hills, or 
fpringing from the rocky precipices, and forming 
many cafcades; the coolnefs and purity of which 
waters invigorate the air of this other wife hot and 
fultry climate. 
The village of Augufta is fttuated on a rich and 
fertile plain, on the Savanna river; the buildings 
are near its banks, and extend nearly two miles up 
to the catara&s, or falls, which are formed by the 
firft 
