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care 1 laved the greateft number of them ; though 
feme were naturally fo delicate and fragile, that it 
was impoffible to recover them. Here is avail body 
of land belonging to this eflate; of high ridges fit 
for the culture of corn, indigo, cotton, batatas, &c, 
and of low fwamps and marfhes, which when pro- 
perly drained and tilled, would be fuitable for rice. 
Thefe rich low grounds, when drained and ridged, 
are as productive as the natural high land, and vaftly 
more durable, efpecially for fugar-cane, corn, and 
even indigo; but this branch of agriculture being 
more expenfive, thefe rich lands are negledled, and 
the upland only is under culture. The farm is fitu- 
ated on the Eaft Ihore of the beautiful Long Lake, 
which is above two miles long, and near a mile broad. 
This lake communicates with the St. Juan, by the 
little river that I afeended, which is about one mile 
and an half in length, and thirty or forty yards wide.- 
The river, as well as the lake, abounds with filh and 
wild fowl of various kinds, and incredible numbers, 
efpecially during the -winter fcafon, when the geefe 
and ducks arrive here from the north. 
New Smyrna*, a pretty thriving town, is a colo- 
ny of Creeks and Minorquines, eilabliilied by Mr, 
Turnbull, on the Mufquito river, and very near its 
^ New Smyrna is built on a high fhelly bluff, on the Weft bank of the South 
branch of Mufquito river, about ten miles above the capes of that river, which 
k about thirty miles North of Cape Canaveral, Lat. 28. I was there about ten 
years ago, when the furveyor run the lines or precintts of the colony, where 
there was neither habitation nor cleared field. It was then a famous orange 
grove, the upper or South promontory of a ridge, nearly half a mile wide, and 
firetching North about forty miles, to the head of the North branch of the Muf- 
«yuto, to where the Tomoko river unites with it, nearly parallel to the fea coaft, 
and not above two miles acrofs to the fea beach. All this ridge was then one en-* 
fire orange grove, with live oaks, magnolias, palms, red bays, and others: I 
■cbferved then, near where New Smyrna now hands, a fpacious Indian mount 
and avenue, which flood near the banks of the river : the avenue ran on a ftrait 
line back, through the groves, acrofs the ridge, and terminated at the verge of 
Jw.iiral favanrias and ponds. 
mouth ; 
