fjQ 1 travels t it' 
a graceful fweep or flourifh, like the long of 
the branches of a fconce candlefrick. The ripe 
and green fruit are placed round about the item or 
trunk, from the loWiermoft leaves, where the ripe; 
fruit are, and upwards aim oil: to the top ; the heart 
or inmoft pithy part of the trunk is in a manner hol- 
low, or at befl confifts of very thin porous medullas-’ 
or membranes. The tree very feldora branches or 
divides into limbs, I believe never unlefs the top is 
by accident broke off when very young : I faw one 
which had two tops or heads, the item of which di- 
vided near the earth. It is always green, orna- 
mented at the fame time with flowers and fruit, 
which like figs come out fingly from the trunk or 
item. 
After refling and refrefliing myfelf in thefe de- 
lightful fliades, I left them with relit ch nee. Em- 
barking again after the fervid heat of the meridian 
iun was abated, for feme time I palled by broken 
ridges of flielly high land, covered with groves 
of Live Oak, Palm, Oka Americana, and Orange 
trees ; frequently obferving floating diets and green 
fields of the PiSia near the fliores of the river and 
lagoons. 
O 
Here is in this river, and in the waters all over 
Florida, a very curious and hand fa me {pedes of birds, 
the people call them Snake Birds; I think I have 
feen paintings of them on the Chinefe fereens and 
other India pictures : they feem to be a fpecies 
of cormorant or loon (Colymbus cauda elongata), 
but far more beautiful and delicately formed 
than any other fpecies that I have ever feen. The 
head and neck of this bird are extremely fmall and 
{lender, the latter very long indeed, almoft out of 
all proportion § the bill long, ftraight, and (lender, 
tapering 
