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deman carrying on a very confiderable trade, and 
having extenfive connections with the Indian tribes 
of Eaft Florida, gave me letters to his agents refid- 
ing at his trading houfes, ordering them to furnifn 
me with horfes, guides, and every other convenient 
aftiftance. 
Before the veil'd was ready to fail again for St. 
John’s, I had time to explore the ifland. In the 
cool of the morning early, I rode out of the town,, 
directing my courfe to the fouth end of the ifland. 
After penetrating a thick grove of oaks, which ai- 
med furrounded the town on the land-fide, fudden- 
ly a very extenfive and beautiful green favanna 
opened to view, in length nearly two miles, and in 
breadth near a mile, well flocked with horned cat- 
tle, ho.fes, fheep, and deer. Following an old 
highway, now c ut of repair, acrofs the Savanna, 
I c Fended the (loping green bank, and entered a 
noble foreft of lofty pines, and then a venerable 
grove of Live Oaks, under whofe fhacly fpreading 
boughs opened a fpacious avenue, leading to the 
former feat of general Oglethorpe, but now the 
property of capt. Raimond Demere. After leav- 
ing this town, I was led into a high pine foreft ; 
the trees were tall, and generally of the fpecies 
called Broom-pine (P. paluflris Linn.) the furface 
pf the ground covered with grafs, herbage, and 
fome fh rubbery : I continued through this foreft 
nearly in a direeft line towards the fea coaft, five or 
Fx miles, when the land became uneven, with 
ridges of find* hills, mixed with fea-fhells, and co- 
yered by almoft impenetrable thickets, confiding 
of Live Oaks, Sweet-bay (L. Borbonia), Myrica, 
Ilex aquifoiium, Rhamnus frangula, Caffine, Sider- 
oxylon, Ptelea, Halefia, Callicarpa, Carpinus, en- 
tangled with Smilax pfeudp-china, and other 
fpecies^ 
