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up for provifion. Thefe Grape vines do not climb 
into high trees, but creep along from one low 
fhrub to another, extending their branches to a 
great diftance horizontally round about ; and it is 
very pleafing to behold the duffers pendant from 
the vines, almoff touching the earth $ indeed fome 
of them lie upon the ground. 
We now entered a very remarkable grove of Dog 
wood trees (Cornus Florida), which continued nine 
or ten miles unalterable, except here and there a 
towering Magnolia grandiflora ; the land on which 
they ffand is an exad level ; the furface a IhalJow, 
loofe, black mould, on a ffratum of ftiff, yellowifh, 
clay. Thefe trees were about twelve feet high, 
fpreading horizontally ; their limbs meeting and 
interlocking with each other, formed one vaff, 
fhady, cool grove, lb denfe and humid as to 
exclude the fun-beams, and prevent the intru- 
fion of almoff every other vegetable, affording 
us a moff defirable fhelter from the fervid fun- 
beams at noon-day. This admirable grove by way 
of eminence has acquired the name of the Dog 
woods. 
During a progrefs of near feventy miles, through 
this high foreff, there conffantly prefented to view 
on one hand or the other, fpacious groves of this 
fine flowering tree, which muff, in the fpring fea- 
fon, when covered with blofoms, prefent a molt plea- 
fing fcene ; when at the fame time a variety of other 
fweet fhrubs difplay their beauty, adorned in their 
gay apparel, as the Halefia, Stewartia, fEiculus pa- 
via, iFffc. alba, iEfc. Florid, ramis divaricatis, thyr- 
fis grandis, flofculis expands incarnatis, Azalea, &c., 
entangled with garlands of Bignonia crucigera. 
