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and on the high Tandy knolls and fwelling ridges* 
Quercus nigra, Quercus flammula, Quercus incana, 
with various other trees and fhrubs as already noted, 
inhabiting Such fi;:uations. The rivulets however 
exhibited a different appearance ; they are Shallower, 
courfe more Swiftly over gravelly beds, and their 
banks are adorned with Illicium groves, Magnolias, 
Azaleas, Halefia, Andromedas, &c. The higlieft 
hills near large creeks afford high forefts with abun- 
dance of Chefnut trees. 
We now approached the bay Mobile, gently as- 
cending a hilly diftridt, being the highefl foreft ad- 
joining the extenfive rich low lands of the river : 
thefe heights are fomewhat encumbered with peb- 
bles, fragments and cliffs of rufty ferruginous rocks; 
the (tones were ponderous and indicated very rich 
iron ore : here was a Small diftridt of good land, 
on the acclivities and bafes of thefe ridges, and a 
level foreft: below, watered by a fine creek, running 
into the Mobile. From hence we proceeded, again 
defcending, and travelled about nine miles generally 
over a level country confiding of favannas. Cane 
fwamps, and gentle rifing knolls, producing Pinus 
tarda, Nyifa fylvatica, Quercus rubra, Fagus cafta. 
.nea, Fraxinus, with other trees. Arrived at Ta- 
enfa, a pretty high bluff, on the Eaftern channel 
of the great Mobile river, about thirty miles above 
fort Conde, or city of Mobile, at the head of the 
bay. 
Next day early in the morning I embarked in a 
boat, and proceeded for Mobile, along the banks of 
iflands (near twenty miles) which lay in the middle 
of the river, between the Eaftern and Weftern. 
Shores of the main : the banks of thefe low flat rich 
islands are well cultivated, having on them extenfive 
D d ' farms 
