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biloba, radicalia, ciliata, conduplicanda, fenfi- 
bilia, infeCta incarcerantia. Syft. vegetab. p. 335)* 
This wonderful plant feems to be diftinguifhed 
in the creation, by the Author of nature, with 
faculties eminently fuperior to every other vege- 
table production* ; fpecimens of it were firft com- 
municated to the curious of the old world by John 
Bart ram., the American botanift and traveller, who 
contributed as much, if not more, than any other 
man towards enriching the North American bota- 
nical nomenclature, as well as its natural hiftory. 
After traverfing thefe ample favannas, I gradu- 
ally afcended fand hills to open Pine forelts ; at 
evening got to Old town near Brunfwick, where I 
lodged. Brunfwick is a fea-port town-on the Cla- 
rendon, or Cape Fear river, about thirty miles 
above the capes ; it is about thirty years fince this 
was the feat of government, when Arthur Dobbs, 
Efq. was governor and commander in chief of the 
province of North Carolina. Continued up the 
W eft fide of North Weft of Cape Fear river, and 
refted two or three days at the feat of F. Lucas, 
Efq., a few miles above Livingfton’s creek, a con- 
iiderable branch of the North Weft. This creek 
heads in vaft fwamps, in the vicinity of the beau- 
tiful lake Wakamaw, which is the fource of a fine 
river of that name, and runs a South courfe feventy 
or eighty miles, delivering its waters into Winyaw 
bay at George-town. The Wakamaw lake is twen- 
ty ftx miles in circuit ; the lands on its Ealtern 
fihores are fertile, and the fituation delightful, 
gradually afcending from pleafmg eminences ; 
bounded on the North- Weft coaft by vaft rich 
fwamps, fit for the production of Rice : the lake 
* See fome acc;unt of it in the introdu Scion,. 
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