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lent quality for the produdtion of every vegetable 
fuited to the climate, andfeeming peculiarly adapt- 
ed for the cultivation of Vines (Vitis vinifera), 
Olives (Olea Europea), the Almond tree (Amyg- 
dalus communis), Fig (Ficus carica), and perhaps 
the Pom gran ate, (Punic a granatum), as well as 
Peaches (Amyg. Perfica), Prunus, Pyrus, of every 
variety. 1 pafled again deep rocky afeents, and 
then rich levels, where grew many trees and plants 
common in Pennfylvania, New- York and even 
Canada, as Pinusftrobus, Pin. fylveftris, Pin. abies, 
Acer faccharinum, Acer ilriatum, f. Penfylvani- 
cum, Populus tremula, Betula nigra, Juglans alba, 
&c. 5 but what feems remarkable, the yellow Jef- 
fatnine (Bignonia fempervirens), which is killed by 
a very flight froft in the open air in Pennfylvania, 
here, on the fu minks of the Cherokee mountains 
afiociates with the Canadian vegetables, and ap- 
pears roving with them inperfedt bloom and gaiety; 
as likewife Halefia diptera, and Hah tetraptera, 
mountain Stewartia, Sty rax, Ptelea, Tsfculus pavia; 
but all thefe bear our hardeft frofts in Pennfylvania! 
Now I enter a charming narrow vale, through 
which flows a rapid large creek, on whofe banks 
are happily aflociated the flirubs already recited^ 
together with the following; Staphykea, Euonil 
mus Americana, Hamamelis, Azalea, various fpe- 
cies, Ariftolochia frutefeens, f. odoratiffima, which 
rambles over the trees and flirubs on the prolific 
banks of thefe mountain brooks. Palled through 
magnificent high forefts, and then came upon the 
borders of an ample meadow on the left, embroi- 
dered by the fliade of a high circular amphitheatre 
of hills, the circular ridges rifing magnificently one 
over the other. On the green turfy bafes of thefe 
afeents appear the nuns of a town of the ancients,. 
The 
