NORTH AMERICA. IOI 
a large town of the Aborigines. It was fituated on 
an eminence near the banks of the lake, and com- 
manded a comprehenfive and charming profpedt of 
the waters, iflands, eaft and weft fhores of the 
lake, the capes, the bay, and Mount Royal ; and 
to the fouth, the view is in a manner infinite, where 
the fkies and waters feem to unite. On the fite of 
this ancient town, ftands a very pompous Indian 
mount, or conical pyramid of earth, from which 
runs in a ftraight line a grand avenue or Indian high- 
way, through a magnificent grove of magnolias, 
live oaks, palms, and orange trees, terminating 
at the verge of a large green level favanna. This 
ifland appears to have been well inhabited, as is 
very evident, from the quantities of fragments of 
Indian earthen ware, bones of animals and other re- 
mains, particularly in the fhelly heights and ridges 
all over the ifland. There are no habitations at 
prefent on the ifland, but a great number of deer, 
turkeys, bears, wolves, wild cats, fquirrels, racoons, 
and opoffums. The bears are invited here to par- 
take of the fruit of the orange tree, which they are 
immoderately fond of; and both they and turkeys 
are made extremely fat and delicious, from their 
feeding on the fweet acorns of the live oak. 
There grow on this ifland many curious fhrubs, 
particularly a beautiful fpecies of lantana (perhaps 
lant. camerara, Lin. Syft. Veget. p. 473). It 
grows in coppices in old fields, about five or fix 
feet high, the branches adorned with rough fer- 
rated leaves, which fit oppofite, and the twigs ter- 
minated with umbelliferous tufts of orange-coloured 
bloftbms, which are fucceeded by a clufter of fmall 
blue berries : the flowers are of various colours, on 
the fame plant, and even in the fame clufter, as 
H 3 crimfon. 
