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autfuihn, does not continue long. The day was 
employed in coafting (lowly, and making collec- 
tions. In the evening I made a harbour under co- 
ver of a long point of flat rocks, which defended 
the mole from the furf. Having fafely moored my 
bark, and chofen my camping ground juft by, dur- 
ing the fine evening I reconnoitred the adjacent 
groves and lawns. Here is a deferred plantation, 
the property of Dr. Stork, where he once refided, 
I obferved many lovely fhrubs and plants in the old 
fields and Orange groves, particularly feveral fpe- 
pies of Convolvulus and Ipomea, the former having 
very large, white, fweet fcented flowers : they are 
great ramblers, climbing and ftrolling on the fhrubs 
and hedges. Next morning I re-embarked, and 
continued traverfing the bold coafi: north-eaftward, 
and fearching the fhores at all convenient landings, 
where I was amply rev/arded for my affiduity in the 
fociety of beauties in the blooming realms of Flo- 
rida. Came to again, at an old deferted planta- 
tion, the property of a Britifh gentleman, but fome 
years fmce vacated. A very fpacious frame build- 
ing was fettling to the ground and mouldering to 
eardi. Here are very extenfive old fields, where 
were growing the Wefl-Indian or perennial Cotton 
and Indigo, which had been cultivated here, and 
fome fcattered remains of the ancient orange groves, 
which had been left Handing at the clearing of the 
plantation. 
I have often been affected with extreme regret, 
at beholding the deftrudtion and devaftation which 
has been committed or indifcreetly exercifed on 
thofe extenfive fruitful Orange groves, on the banks 
of St. Juan, by the new planters under the Britifh. 
government, fome hundred acres of which, at a 
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