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would fpeedily return with merchandize as hereto-* 
fore ; all which was cheerfully confented to, alluring 
them their wifhes and fentiments fully coincided with 
ours. 
The chief trader, intending to fhow me fome re- 
markable barren plains, on our return to our em 
campment, about noon we fat off : when we came 
within fight of them, I was (truck with aftonifh- 
ment at their dreary appearance; the view South- 
erly feemed endlels waftes, prefenting rocky, gra- 
velly and fandy barren plains, producing fcarcely 
any vegetable fubftances, except a few fhrubby 
crooked Pine trees, growing out of heaps of white 
rocks, which reprefented ruins of villages, planted 
over the plains; with clumps of mean fhrubs, which 
ferved only to perpetuate the perfecuting power 
and rage of fire, and to teflify the aridity of the 
foil. The fhrubs I obferved were chiefly the fol- 
lowing; Myrica cerifera, two or three varieties, one 
of which is very dwarhfh, the leaves fmail, yet 
toothed or finuated, of a yellowifh green colour,- 
owing to a farinaceous pubefcence or veficula which 
covers their furfaces; Prinos, varieties, Andromeda 
ferruginea, Andr. nitida, varieties, Rhamnus fran- 
gula, Sideroxylon fericium. Ilex aquifolium, Ilex 
myrtifolium, Empetrum, Kalmia ciliata, Caffme, and 
a great variety of fhrub Oaks, evergreen and deci- 
duous, fome of them fingularly beautiful ; Cory- 
pha repens ; with a great variety of herbage, par- 
ticularly Cacalia, Prenanthus, Chryfocoma, Heli- 
anthus, Silphium, Lobelia, Globularia, Helenium, 
Polygala, varieties, Clinopodium, Cadtus, various 
ipecies, Euphorbia, various ipecies, Afclepias car- 
nofa, very beautiful and fingular, Sophora, Dian- 
thus, Ciftus, Sifymbrium, Pedicularis, Gerardia, | 
Lechea, 
