TRAVELS IN’ 
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fingle plantation, have been entirely deftroyed, to 
make room for the indigo. Cotton, Corn, Batatas, 
&c. or, as they fay, to extirpate the mufquitoes, al- 
ledging that groves near the dwellings are haunts 
and ihelters for thofe perfecuting infe&s. Some plan- 
tations have not a fingle tree Handing; and where 
any have been left, it is only a fmall coppice or clump, 
nakedly expofed and deftitute ; perhaps fifty or an 
hundred trees Handing near the dwelling-houle, hav- 
ing no lofty cool grove of expand ve Live Oaks, 
Laurel Magnolias, and Palms, to lhade and protect 
them, exhibiting a mournful, fallow countenance ; 
their native perfectly formed and gloffy green fo- 
liage as if violated, defaced and torn to pieces by 
the bleak winds, fcorched by the burning fun-beams 
tiful ifle in fight of Mount Royal. Next day, a£ 
ter colledting what was new and worthy of partial 
lar notice, I fet fail again, and called by the way a 
Mount Royal. In the evening arrived fafe at 
|tores, bringing along with me valuable colle&ion 
in fummer, and chilled by the winter froHs. 
In the evening I took up my quarters in the beau 
