NORTH AMERICA* ? 
Magnolia glanca, Magnolia pyramidata, Cercis, 
Kalmia angudifolia, Kalmia ciliata, Chionanthus, 
Cephalanthos, fEfculus parva ; and the interme- 
diate fpaces, lurrounding and lying between the 
ridges and favannas, are interfered with plains of 
the dwarf prickly fan-leaved Palmetto, and lawns 
of grafs variegated with (lately trees of the great 
Broom-Pine, and the fpreading ever -green Water- 
Oak, either difpofed in clumps, or fcatteringly 
planted by nature. The upper furface, or vegeta- 
tive foil of the ifland, lies on a foundation, or ftra- 
tum, of tenacious cinereous-coloured clay, which 
perhaps is the principal fupport of the vad growth 
of timber that arifes from the furface, which is 
little more than a mixture of fine white fand and 
didolved vegetables, ferving as a nurfery bed to 
hatch or bring into exigence the infant plant, 
and to fupply it with aliment and food, datable to 
Its delicacy and tender frame, until the roots, ac- 
quiring fufficient extent and folidity to lay hold of 
the clay, foon attain a magnitude and (lability fuf- 
ficient to maintain its dation, Probably if this clay 
were dug out, and caft upon the furface, a her be- 
ing meliorated by the faline or nitrous qualities of 
the air, it would kindly incorporate wi:h the loofe 
fand, and become a productive and lading manure. 
The roebuck, or deer, are numerous on this-' 
ifland; the tyger, wolf, and bear, hold yet fome 
poffedion ; as alfo raccoons, foxe^, hares, fquirrels, 
rats, and mice, but 1 think no moles. There is 
a large ground rat, more than twice the hze of the 
common Norway rat. In the night time it throws 
out the earth, forming little mounds, or hillocks, 
OpoiTums are here in abundance, as alfo pole- 
cats, wild-cats, rattle Tnakes, giafs-fnake, coach- 
whip-fnake, and a variety of other ferpents, 
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