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tives that were condemned to die ; as the area is 
furrounded by a bank, and fometimes two of 
them, one behind and above the other, as feats, 
to accommodate the fpedtators at fuch tragical 
fcenes, as well as the exhibition of games, fhows, 
and dances. From the river St, Juans, foutherlv 
to the point of the peninfula of Florida, are to be 
feen high pyramidal mounts, with fpacious and 
extenfive avenues, leading from them out of the 
town, to an artificial lake or pond of water ; 
thefe were evidently defigned in part for orna- 
ment or monuments of magnificence, to perpe- 
tuate the power and grandeur of the nation, and 
not inconfiderable neither, for they exhibit fcenes 
of power and grandeur, and muft have been 
public edifices* 
The great mounts, highways, and artificial lakes 
up S. Juans, on the Eaft (bore, juft at the entrance 
of the great Lake George, one on the oppofite 
fhore, on the bank of the Little Lake, another 
on Dunn's Illand, a little below Charlbtteville, 
one on the large beautiful iiland juft without 
the Capes of Lake George, in fight of Mount 
Royal, and a fpacious one on the Weft banks of 
the Mufquitoe river near New Smyrna, are the 
moft remarkable of this fort that occurred to me; 
but undoubtedly many more are yet to be dift 
covered farther South in the peninfula ; however 
I obferved none Weftward, after I left St. J uans 
on my journey to little St. Juan, near the bay of 
Apalache. 
But in all the region of the Mufcogulge coun- 
try, South-Weft from the Oakmulge River quite 
to the Tallapoofe, down to the city of Mobile, 
and thence along the fea coaft, to the Mifiiffipi, 
l /aw no figns of mountains or highways, except 
