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tritied or cemented together, with fine white fand 5 
and thefe rocks were bedded in a ftratum of clay. 
I law many fragments of the earthen ware of the 
ancient inhabitants, and bones of animals, arnongft 
the Shells, and mixed with the earth, to a great 
depth. This high fhelly bank continues, by gentle 
parallel ridges, near a quarter of a mile back from 
the river, gradually diminishing to the level of the 
Tandy plains, which widen before and on each fide 
eastward, to a feemingly unlimited diflance, and 
appear green and delightful, being covered with 
grafs and the Corypha reptns, and thinly planted 
with trees of the lorm-Laved, or Broom Pine, and 
decorated with clumps, or coppices, of floriferous, 
evergreen, and aromatic fhrubs, and enamelled 
with patches of the beautiful little Kalmea ciliata. 
Thefe ihelly ridges have a vegetable furface of loofe 
black mould, very fertile, which naturally produces 
Orange groves, Live Oak, Laurus Borbonia, Pal- 
ma data, Carica papaya, Sapindus, Liquidambar, 
Fraxinus exelficr, Morus rubra, Ulmus, Tilia, 
Sambucus, P tele a. Tallow- nut or Wild Lime, and 
many others, 
Mr. Rolle obtained from the crown a grant of 
forty thoufand acres of land, in any. part of Eaib 
Florida, where the land was unlocated. It feems, 
his views were to take up his grant near St. Mark’s, 
in the bay of Apalatchi; and he fat fail from England, 
with about one hundred families, for that place ; 
but by contrary winds, and ftrefs of weather, he 
miffed his aim ; and being obliged to put into St. 
Juan’s, he, with fome of the principal of his ad- 
herents, afcended the river in a boat, and being 
Truck with its majefly, the grand fituations of its 
banks, and fertility of its lands, and at the fame 
.time considering the extenfiye navigation of the 
river* 
