NORTH AMERICA* 
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There are to be feen plain marks or vefliges of 
the old Spanifh plantations and dwellings ; as fence 
polls and wooden pillars of their houfes, ditches, and 
even corn ridges and Batata hills. From the In- 
dian accounts, the Spaniards had here a rich well 
■cultivated and populous fettlement, and a fcrong 
fortified poll, as they like wile had at the favanna 
and fields of Capola ; but either of them far infe- 
rior to one they had fome miles farther fouth-well 
towards the Apalachuchla River, now called the 
Apalachean Old Fields, where yet remain vaR works 
and buildings, as fortifications, temples, fome brafs 
cannon, mortars, heavy church bells, &c. 
The fame groups of whitifh tellaceous rocks and 
circular finks, with natural wells, make their ap- 
pearance in thefe groves and fields, as obferved on 
the fide of the river oppofite to Capola ; and the 
fame trees, Ihrubs, and herbage without variation. 
Having palfed five or fix miles through thefe ancient 
fields and groves, the fcene fuddenly changes, after 
.riding through a high forell of Oak, Magnolia, 
Fraxinus, Liquidambar, Fagus fylvatica, &c. 
Now at once opens to view, perhaps, the moil: 
extend ve Cane- break * that is to be feen on the face 
of the whole earth ; right forward, about fouth- 
well, there appears no bound but the Ikies, the 
level plain, like the ocean, uniting with the firma- 
ment, and on the right and left hand, dark fhaded 
groves, old fields, and high forells, fuch as we 
had lately palfed through. 
The alternate bold promontories and milly points 
advancing and retiring, at length, as it were, infenfi- 
* Cane meadows, fo called by the inhabitants of Carolina, &c.. 
