NORTH AMERICA, 
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formerly did with the renowned Greeks and Ro- 
mans., or modern civilized nations, and not from a 
‘ ferocious, capricious delireof fhedding human blood 
as carnivorous favages : neither does the eager 
avarice of plunder flimulate them to adts of mad- 
nefs and cruelty, that being a trifling objedl in their 
eflimstion, a duffield blanket, a polilhed rifle gun, 
or embroidered mantle ; no, their martial prowefs 
and objedts of defire and ambition proceed from 
greater principles and more magnanimous inten- 
tions, even that of reuniting all nations and languages 
under one univerfal confederacy or common wealth. 
The vegetable produdlions in the rich low 
ground, near the banks of this great river, of trees 
and fhrubs, are as follow ; Platanus occidentals, 
Liriodendron tulipifera, Populus heterophylla,Lau- 
rus faflafras, Laurus Barbonia, Laurus benzoin, Be- 
tula lenta, Salix fluvialis. Magnolia grandiflora, An- 
nona glabra, Ulmus campeflris, Ulmus fuberifera, 
Carpinus, Quercus, various fpecies, Juglans,. vari- 
ous fpecies, iEfculus pavia, iEfculus fylvatica, f. 
Virginiana, Morus, Hopea tindloria, Fagus fylva- 
tica, of furprifing magnitude and comelinefs, &c. 
The land rifes from the river with fublime magni- 
ficence, gradually retreating by flights or fieps one 
behind and above the other, in beautiful theatrical 
order, each ftep or terrace holding up a level plain; 
and as we travel back from the river, the fieps are 
higher, and the correfponding levels are more and 
more expanfive : the afcents produce grand high 
forefls, and the plains prefent to view a delightful 
varied landfcape,confifting of extenfive graffy fields, 
detached groves of high forefl trees, and clumps of 
lower trees, evergreen fhrubs and herbage ; green 
knolls, with ferpentine, wavy, glittering brooks 
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