NORTH AMERICA, 
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1 fuppofe the perpendicular elevation of the ground 
may be twenty or thirty feet. There are near thirty 
habitations conftrubled after the mode of Cufco- 
willa ; but here is a more fpacious and neat council- 
houfe. 
Thefe Indians have large handfome canoes, which 
they form out of the trunks of Cyprefs trees (Cu- 
preous difticha), fome of them commodious enough 
to accommodate twenty or thirty warriors. In thefe 
large canoes they defcend the river on trading and 
hunting expeditions to the fea coaft, neighbouring 
Blands and keys, quite to the point of Florida, and 
fometimes crofs die gulph, extending their naviga- 
tions to the Bahama iflands and even to Cuba : a 
crew of thefe adventurers had juft arrived, having 
returned from Cuba but a few days before our ar- 
rival, with a cargo of fpirituous liquors, Coffee, 
Sugar, and Tobacco. One of them politely prefent- 
ed me with a choice piece of Tobacco, which he told 
me he had received from the governor of Cuba. 
They deal in the way of barter, carrying with 
them deer fkins, furs, dry fifh, bees-wax, honey, 
bear’s oil, and fome other articles. They fay the 
Spaniards receive them very friendlily, and treat 
them with the beft fpirituous liquors. 
The Spaniards of Cuba likewife trade here or at 
St. Mark’s, and other fea ports on the weft coaft 
of the ifthmus, in fmall Hoops ; particularly at the 
bay of Calos, where are excellent fifhing banks and 
grounds ; not far from which is a Confiderable town 
of the Siminoles, where they take great quantities 
of filli, which they fait and cure on fhore, and barter 
with the Indians and traders for fkins, furs, &c. and 
return with their cargoes to Cuba, 
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