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requeued me to flay and dine with him; and on 
my pleading, for excufe, the neceffity of my being 
at Frederica, cc Yet, I pray you, flay a little, I will 
foon have fome refrefhment for you.” Prefently 
was laid before us a plentiful repaft of venifon, &c. ; 
our drink being honey and water, fcrengthened by 
the addition of brandy. Our rural table was fpread 
under the fhadow of Oaks, Palms, and Sweet Bays, 
fanned by the lively falubrious breezes wafted from 
the fpicy groves. Our mufic was the refponfive 
love-lays of the painted nonpareil, and the alert 
and gay mockbird ; whilft the brilliant humming- 
bird darted through the flowery groves, fufpended 
in air, and drank nedtar from the flowers of the 
yellow Jafmine, Lonicera, Andromeda, and fweet 
Azalea. 
But yet, how awfully great and fublime is the 
majeftic fcene eaflrward ! the folemn found of the 
beating furf ftrikes our ears; the dafhing of yon 
liquid mountains, like mighty giants, in vain aflfail 
the flues ; they are beaten back, and fall proilrate 
upon the fliores of the trembling ifland. 
Taking leave of my fylvan friend, I fat off on 
my return to the town, where I arrived before 
night, having obferved, on the way, many curious 
vegetable productions, particularly Corypha Palma 
(or great Cabbage Palm) Corypha pumila, Corypha 
repens, frondibus expanfis, flabeiliformibus, plica- 
tis, ftipk. fpinofis (Dwarf Saw Palmetto) Corypha 
obliqua, caudice arboreo adfcendente, frondibus 
expanfis, flabeiliformibus, piicatis, ftipit. ferratis, 
Cyrilla, Tillandiia monoftachya, Till, lingulata, or 
Wild Pine; bodi thefe curious vegetables are pa- 
rafites, living on the rubftance of others, particu- 
larly on the limbs of the Live Oak ; the latter fpe- 
cies 
