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around; infomuch that the whole country is for an 
hour or more in an univerfal fliout. A little after 
fun-rife, their crowing gradually ceafes, they quit 
their high lodging places, and alight on the earth, 
where, expanding their filver bordered train, they 
ftrut and dance round about the coy female, while 
the deep foreils feem to tremble with their fhrill 
noife. 
This morning the winds on the great river were 
high and againft me; I was therefore obliged to 
keep in port a great part of the day, which 1 em- 
ployed in little excurfions round about my encamp- 
ment. The Live Oaks are of an aftonifhing mam- 
nitude, and one tree contains a prodigious quantity 
of timber; yet, comparatively, they are not tall, even 
in tnefe forefts, where growing on ftrong land, in 
company with others of great altitude (fuch as 
Tagus fylvatica, Liquidambar, Magnolia grandi- 
flora, and the high Palm tree) they drive while young 
to be upon an equality with their neighbours, and 
to enjoy the influence of the fun-beams, and of the 
pure animating air. But the others at lad prevail, 
and their proud heads are feen at a great didance, 
towering far above the reft of the fored, which con- 
lifts chiefly of this fpecies of oak, Fraxinus, Ulmus, 
Acer rubrum, Taurus Borbonia, Quercus dentata. 
Ilex aquifolium, Olea Americana, Morus, Gleditda 
triacanthus, and, I believe, a fpecies of Sapindus. 
But the latter fpre&ds abroad his brawny arms, to 
a great didance. The trunk of the Live Oak is 
generally from twelve to eighteen feet in girt, 
and rifes ten or twelve feet erect from the earth, 
dome I have feen eighteen or twenty; then di- 
vides itfelf into three, four, or five great limbs, 
which 
