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the fame appearance with the great foreft laft men- 
tioned 5 its vegetable productions nearly the fame, 
excepting that the broken ridges by which we af* 
cend to the plain are of a better foil the vegeta- 
tive mould is mixed with particles of clay and fmali 
gravel, and the foil of a dufky brown colour, lying 
on a llratum of reddiih brown tough clay. The 
trees and fhrubs are, Pinus tseda, great black Oak, 
Quercus tincftoria, rubra, Laurus, Saflafras, Mag- 
nolia grandiflora, Cornus Florida, Cercis, Halefia, 
Juglans acuminata, Juglans exaltata, Andromeda 
arborea : and, by the fides of rivulets (which wind 
about and between thefe hills and fw 7 amps, in the 
vales) Styrax latifolia, Ptelea trifoliata, Stewartia, 
Calycanthus, Chionanthus, Magnolia tripetala, A- 
zalea and others. 
Thus have I endeavoured to give the reader a 
fhort and natural defcription of the vafc plain lying 
between the region of Augufta and the fea coaft 3 
for from Augufta the mountainous country begins 
(when compared to the level Tandy plain already 
paTTed), although it is at leaft an hundred and fifty 
miles weft, thence to the Cherokee or Apalachean 
mountains $ and this fpace may with propriety be 
called the hilly country, every where fertile and de- 
lightful, continually replenifhed by innumerable ri- 
vulets, either courfing about the fragrant hills, or 
fpringing from the rocky precipices, and forming 
many cafcades; the cooinefs and purity of which 
waters invigorate the air of this otherwife hot and 
fultry climate. 
The village of Augufta is fituated on a rich and 
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fertile plain, on the Savanna river ; die buildings 
are near its banks, and extend nearly two miles up 
to the cataracfts, or falls, which are formed by the 
firft 
