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is twelve miles Weft from Moore’s, Efq,, 
whofe villa is on the banks of the North Weft. 
Proceeding again up the North Weft, crofted 
Carver’s creek, and flopped at Afhwood, the an- 
cient feat of Colonel William Bartram. The houfe 
ftands on the high banks of the river, near feventy 
feet in height above thefurfaceof the water; this 
high bluff continues two or three miles on the ri- 
ver, and commands a magnificent profpect of the 
low lands oppofite, when in their native ftate, 
prefenting to the view grand forefis and expan- 
five Cane meadows : the trees which compole 
thefe forefts are generally of the following tribes, 
Quercus tinbtoria, Querc. aiba, Querc. phillos, 
Querc. aquatica, Querc. hemifpherica, Fraxinus 
excelfior, Platanus occidentalis, Liriodendron 
tulipifera, Liquidambar ftyraciflua, Ulrnus, Ti- 
lia, Juglans hiccory, Juglans cinerea, Juglans 
nigra, Morus rubra, Gleditfia triacanthus, Flo- 
pea tindtoria, Nyffa aquatica, Nyffa fylvatica, 
Carpinus and many more; theCupreffus difticha 
as ftately and beautiful as I have feen any where. 
When thefe lands are cleared of their timber and 
cultivated, they produce abundantly, particular- 
ly, Wheat, Zea, Cotton, Hemp, Flax, with va- 
riety of excellent vegetables. This perpendicu- 
lar bank of the river, by which the waters fwiftly 
glide along, difcovers at once the various ftrata 
of the earth of this low maritime country. For 
the rnoft part, the upper ftratum confifts of a 
light, fandy, pale, yellowifti mould or loam, for 
ten or twelve feet in depth (except the flat level 
land back from the rivers, where the clays or 
marie approach very near the furface, and the 
ridges of fand hills, where the clays lie much 
deeper) : /this fandy mould or loam lies upon a 
