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tieman carrying on a very conllderabie trade, and 
having extenfive connexions with the Indian tribes 
ofEaft Florida, gave me letters to his agents rend- 
ing at his trading houfes, ordering them to furnifti 
me with horfes, guides, and every other convenient 
affiftance. 
Before the vefiel was ready to fail again for St. 
John’s, I had time to explore the illand. In the 
cool of the morning early, I rode out of the town, 
direXing my courfe to the fouth end of the illand. 
After penetrating a thick grove of oaks, which al- 
moft furrounded the town on the land -fide, fudden- 
ly a very extenfive and beautiful green favanna 
opened to view, in length nearly two miles, and in 
breadth near a mile, well Hocked with horned cat- 
tle, horfes, fheep, and deer. Following an old 
highway, now out of repair, acrofs the Savanna, 
I afcended the Hoping green bank, and entered a 
noble foreft of lofty pines, and then a venerable 
grove of Live Oaks, under whofe ftiady fpreading 
boughs opened a fpacious avenue, leading to the 
former feat of general Oglethorpe, but now the 
property of capt. Raimond Demere. After leav- 
ing this town, I was led into a high pine foreft ; 
the trees were tall, and generally of the fpecies 
called Broom-pine (P. paluftris Linn.) the furface 
of the ground covered with grafs, herbage, and 
fome fhrubbery : I continued through this foreft 
nearly in a direX line towards the fea coaft, five or 
fi miles, v/hen the land became uneven, with 
ridges of fand-hills, mixed with fea fhells, and co- 
vered by almoft impenetrable thickets, confiding 
of Live Oaks, Sweet-bay (L. Borbonia), Myrica, 
Ilex aquifolium, Rhamnus frangula, Caftine, Sider- 
oxylon, Ptelea, Halefia, Caliicarpa, Carpinus, en- 
tangled with Smilax pfeudo-china, and other 
fpecies^ 
