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care I faved the greateft number of them 5 though 
fome were naturally fo delicate and fragile 3 that it 
was inrspoffble to recover them. Here i a vaft body 
of land belonging to this eftatej of high ridges nt 
for the culture, of corn, indigo, cotton, batatas, &c. 
and of low fwamps and marlhes, which when pro- 
perly drained and tilled, won d be fuitable for rice» 
Thefe rich low grounds, when drained and ridged; 
are as productive as the natural high land, and vaitly 
more durable, efpecially for fu gar- cane, corn, and 
even indigo; but this branch of agriculture being 
more expenfive, thefe rich lands are negiedted, and 
the upland only is under culture. The farm is fitu- 
ated on the Eaft fhore of the beautiful Long Lake; 
Which is above two miles long, and near a mile broad. 
This lake communicates with the St. Juan, by the 
little river that I afcended, which is about one mile 
and an half in length, and thirty or forty yards wide. 
The river, as well as the lake, abounds with fifh and 
wild fowl of various kinds, and incredible numbers* 
efpecially during the winter feafbn, when the geefe 
and ducks arrive here from the north. 
New Smyrna*, a pretty thriving town, is a colo- 
ny of Creeks and Minorquines, eftablirhed by Mr. 
Turnbull, on the Mufquito river, and very near its 
* New Smyrna is built on a high fhelly bluff, on the Weft bank of th$ 
South branch of Mufquito river, about ten miles above the capes of that 
river, which is about thirty miles North of Cape Canaveral, Lat. zS. I 
Was there about ten years ago, when the furveyor run the lines or \ ecinfts 
qF the colony, where there was neither habitation nor cleared held. It 
was then a famous orange grove, the upper or South promontory- of a ridge, 
nearly half a mile wide, and foretelling North about forty miles, to the head 
of the North branch of the Mufquito, to where the Tomoko river unites 
with it, nearly parallel to the fea coaft, and not above two miles acrofs to> 
the fea beach. All this ridge was then one entire orange grove, with live 
oaks, magnolias, palms, red bays, and others : I obferved then, near where 
New Symrna now Rands, a fpacious Indian mount anu avenue, which 
Rood near the banks of the fiver : the avenue ran on a ftr^it line back, 
through the groves, acrofs the ridge, and terminated at the verge of na- 
tural favannas and ponds. 
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