TRAVELS IN 
92 
trifled or cemented together, with fine white land* 
and thefe rocks were bedded in a flratum of clay. 
I faw many fragments of the earthen ware of the 
ancient inhabitants, and bones of animals, amongft 
the fhells, and mixed with the earth, to a great 
depth. This high ihelly bank continues, by gentle 
parallel ridges, near a quarter of a mile back from 
the river, gradually diininifhing to the level of the 
fandy plains, which widen before and on each fide 
eaflward, to a feemingly unlimited diflance, and 
appear green and delightful, being covered with 
grafs and the Corypha repens, and thinly planted 
with trees of the long leaved, or Broom Pine, and 
decorated with clumps, or coppices, of fioriferous, 
evergreen, and aromatic lhrubs, and enamelled 
with patches of the beautiful little Kalmea ciliata. 
Thefe fheily ridges have a vegetable furface of loofe 
black mould, very fertile, which naturally produces 
Orange groves, Live Oak, Laurus Borbonia, Pal- 
ma data, Carica papaya, Sapindus, Liquidambar, 
Fraxinus exelfior. Morns rubra, Ulmus, Tilia, 
Sambucus, Ptelea, Tallow-nut or Wild Lime, and 
many others. 
Mr. Rolle obtained from the crown a grant of 
forty thoufand acres of land, in any part of Eafi 
Florida, where the land was unlocated. It feems, 
his views were to take up his grant near St. Mark’s, 
in the bay of Apalatchi; and he fat fail from England, 
with about one hundred families, for that place $ 
but by contrary winds, and ftrefs of weather, he 
miffed his aim ; and being obliged to put into St. 
Juan’s, he, with fome of the principal of his ad- 
herents, afcended the river in a boat, and being 
ftruck with its majefty, the grand lituations of its 
banks, and fertility of its lands, and at the fame 
time, confidering the extenfive navigation of the 
river. 
