NORTH AMERICA. 
ipeeies, Bignonia Temper virens, B crucigera, Rham-? 
nus volubilis, &c. This dark labyrinth is fucceeded 
by a great extent of fait plains, beyond which the 
boundlefs ocean is feen. Betwixt the dark foreft 
and the fait plains, I eroded a rivulet of frefh wa- 
ter, where I fat down a while to reft rnyfelf, under 
the fhadow of fweet Bays and Oaks ; the lively 
breezes were perfumed by the fragrant breath of 
theTuperb Crinum, called by the inhabitants, White 
Lily. This admirable beauty of the fea-coaft- 
iflands dwells in the humid fhady groves, where the 
foil is made fertile and mellow by the admixture of 
fea fhells. The delicate ftrudure of its ipadix, its 
green broad leaves, and the texture and whitenels 
of its flowers, at once charmed me. The Euphor- 
bia pida, Salvia coccinea, and Ipomea ereda, 
were alfo feated in front of my refting place, as 
well as the Lycium falfum (perhaps L. Afrum Linn.) 
a very beautiful ever-green fhrub, its cerulean 
flowers, and coral red berries, always on its 
branches, forming not the leaft of its beauties. 
Time now admoni firing me to rife and be going, 
I, with reluctance, broke away from thrs aflembly 
of maritime beauties. 
Continuing on, fouthward, the fait plains on my 
left hand infenfibiy became narrower, and I at 
length reached the ftrand, which was level, firm, 
and paved with fhells, and afforded me a grand 
view of the t>oundlefs ocean. 
0 thou Creator fupreme, almighty ! how infinite 
and incompre hen Able thy works ! moft perfed* and 
pvery way aftoni filing ! 
1 continued nearly a mile along this firm Tandy 
leach, the waves of the fea fometimcs walking my 
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