TRAVELS IN 
around ; infomuch that the whole country is for all 
hour or more in an univerfal fhout. . A little after 
fun - rife, their crowing gradually ceafes, they quit 
their high lodging-places, and alight on the earth, 
where expanding their filver bordered train, they 
ftrut and dance round about the coy female, while 
the deep foreds feem to tremble with their fhrill 
noife. 
This morning the winds on the great river were 
high ana againft me ; I was therefore obliged to 
keep in port a great part of the day, which I em- 
ployed in little excurfions round about my encamp- 
ment. The L ive Oaks are of an adomihing mag- 
nitude, and one tree contains a prodigious quantity 
of timber; yet, comparatively, they are not tall, even 
in thefe foreds, where growing on ltrong land, in 
company with others of g^eat altitude (fuch as 
Fagus fylvatica, Liquidambar, Magnolia grandi- 
flora, and the high Palm tree) they drive while young 
to be upon an equality with their neighbours, and 
to enjoy the influence of the fun-beams, and of the 
pure animating air. But the others at lad prevail, 
and their proud heads are feen at a great didance, 
towering far above the red of the fored, which con- 
fids chiefly of this fpecies of oak, Fraxinus, Ulmus, 
Acer rubrum, Laurus Borbonia, Quercus dentata. 
Ilex aquifolhim, Oiea Americana, Morus, Gleditfia 
triacanthus, and, I believe, a fpecies of Sapindus, 
But the latter fpreads abroad his brawny arms, to 
a great didance. The trunk of the Live Oak is 
generally from twelve to eighteen feet in girt, 
and rifes ten or twelve feet ere£t from the earth, 
feme I have feen eighteen or twenty; then di- 
vides itfelf mo three, four, or five great limbs, 
6 which 
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