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the tumuli, terraces, pofts or pillars, old Peach and 
Plumb or chards, &c. fufficiently teftify. Thefe 
vales and fwelling bales of the furrounding hills, 
afford vaft crops of excellent grafs and herbage fit 
for pafturage and hay 5 of the latter, Plantago Vir- 
ginia, Sanguifcrba, Geum, Fragaria, &c. The 
Panax quinquefolium, or Ginfeng, now appears 
plentifully on the North expofure of the hill, grow- 
ing out of the rich mellow humid earth amongft 
the flones or fragments of rocks. 
Having croffed the vales, I began to afcend again 
the more lofty ridges of hills ; then continued about 
eight miles over more gentle pyramidal hills, nar- 
row vales and lawns, the foil exceedingly fertile, 
producing lofty forefls and odoriferous groves of 
Galycanthus, near the banks of rivers, with Halefia, 
Philadelphus inodorus, Rhododendron ferrugineum. 
Azalea, Stewartia montana*, fol. ovatis acuminatis 
ferratis, flor. niveo, ftaminum corona fulgida, peri- 
carp. pomum exfiiccum, apice acuminatodehifcens, 
Cornus Florida, Styrax, all in full bloom, and de- 
corated with the following fweet roving climbers, 
Bignonia fempervirens, Big. crucigera, Lonicera 
fempervirens, Rofa paniculata, &c. 
Nov/ at once the mount divide ; and difclofe to 
view the ample Qcconne vale, encircled by a 
wreath of uniform hills 5 their fwelling bafes clad 
in cheerful verdure, over which, Bluing from be- 
tween the mountains, plays along a glittering river, 
meandering through the meadows. Cr offing thefe 
at the upper end of the vale, I began to afcend the 
Qcconne mountain. On the foot of the hills are 
