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large and beautiful filix ofmunda, growing in great 
tufts or clumps. After leaving the rivulet, we palled 
over a wet, hard, level glade or down, covered 
with a fine fhort grafs, with abundance of low faw 
palmetto, and a few Ihrubby pine trees, quercus ni- 
gra, quercus finuata or fcarlet oak : then the path 
defcends to a wet bay -gale ; the ground a hard, fine, 
white fand, covered with black flulh, which conti- 
nues above two miles, when it gently rifes the higher 
fand hills, and diredtly after paffes through a fine 
grove of young long-leaved pines. The foil feerned 
here loofe, brown, coarfe, iandy loam, though fer- 
tile. The afcent of the hill, ornamented with a va- 
riety and profufion of herbaceous plants and grades,, 
particularly amaryllis atamafco, clitoria, phlox, ipo- 
mea, convolvulus, verbena corymbofa, ruellia, viola, 
&c. A magnificent grove of ftately pines, fuc- 
ceeding to the expand ve wild plains we had a long 
time travelled, had a pieafmg efFebl, roufing the 
faculties of the mind, awakening the imagination by 
its fublimity, and arrefting every adcive, inquifitive 
idea, by the variety of the fcenery, and the folemn 
fymphony of the Heady Weftern breezes, playing 
Inceffantly, rifing and falling through the thick and 
wavy foliage. 
The pine groves paffed, we immediately find our- 
felves on the entrance of the expand ve airy pine fo- 
, jells, on parallel chains of low dwelling mounds, 
called the Sand Hills $ their afcent fo eafy, as to be 
almoft imperceptible to the progredlve traveller ; 
yet at a diflant view before us in fome degree ex- 
hibit the appearance of the mountainous fwell of 
fhe ocean immediately after a temped : ; but yet, as 
we approach them, they infendbly difappear, and 
feem to be loll ; and we fhould be ready to conclude 
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