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ruins of the ancient Occonne town® The firft ftep 
after leaving the verdant beds of the hills, was a 
very high rocky chain of pointed hills, extremely 
well timbered with the following trees : Quercus 
tin&oria, Qtjerc. alba, Querc. rubra, Fraxinus ex~ 
celfior, Juglans hickory various fpecies, Ulmus, 
Tilia, Acer faccharinum, Morus, Juglans nigra 5 
Juglans alba, Annona glabra, Robinia pfeudacacia. 
Magnolia acuminata, JEfculug iylvatica, with many 
more, particularly a fpecies of Robinia new to me, 
though perhaps the fame as figured and flight ly 
defcribed by Catefby in his Nat. Hift. Carol. This 
beautiful flowering tree grows twenty and thirty feet 
high, wflth a crooked leaning trunk ; the branches 
fpread greatly, and wreath about, fame almoft 
touching the ground ; however there appears a 
lingular pleaflng wildnefs and freedom in its man- 
ner of growth ; the (lender iubdivifions of the 
branches terminate with heavy compound partlbles 
of rofe or pink coloured flowers, amidft a wreath 
of beautiful pinnated leaves. 
My next flight was up a very high peak, to the 
top of the Occonne mountain, where I relied ; and 
turning about, found that I was now in a very ele- 
vated fltuation, from whence I enjoyed a view in- 
expreflibly magnificent and comprehenfive. The 
mountainous wildernefs which I had lately tra- 
verfed, down to the region of Augufta, appear- 
ing regularly undulated as the great ocean after a 
tempeft ; the undulations gradually depreffing, yet 
perfedlly regular, as the fquama of fifh, or imbri- 
cations of tile on a roof : the neareil ground to me 
of a perfedl full green , next more glaucous ; and 
laftly aim oft blue as the ether with w T hich the 
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