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phora, glycine, vitia, clitorea, ipomea, urtica, falvia 
graveolens, viola, and many more. How cheerful 
and focial is the rural converfe of the various tribes 
of tree frogs, whilfl they look to heaven for prolific 
fhowers ! How harmonious the fhrill tuneful fongs 
of the wood thrufh, and the foothing love lays of 
the amorous cuckoo *, feated in the cool leafy 
branches of the {lately magnolias and fhadowy elms, 
maples and liquidambar, together with gigantic fa- 
gus fylvatica, which fhade and perfume thefe fequ en- 
tered groves ! How unexpected and enchanting the 
enjoyment, after traverfmg a burning fancly de- 
fer t ! 
Now, again, we behold the open pine foreils, and 
afcend the fandy hills, which continue for fome miles, 
then gently defcend again, when a level expanfive 
favanna plain prefects itfelf to view, which, after en- 
tering, and proceeding on, becomes w r et and covered 
by a fine fhort grafs, with exteniive parterres of the 
dwarf creeping palmetto, its ftipes fharply toothed 
or ferrated, together with clumps of low fhrubs, as 
kalmia, Andromeda, annona pygmea, myrica ceri- 
fera, empetrum, vacclnium, and others. 
We now afcend a little again, and pafs through a 
narrow pine foreft ; when fuddenly opens to view a 
vaftly extenfive and fedgy marih, expanding South- 
erly like an open fan, feemingly as boundlefs as the 
great ocean : our road eroding the head of it, 
about three hundred yards over ; the bottom here 
was hard fand, a foot or more under a loft muddy 
furface. The traders informed me, that thefe vail 
marfhes lie on the borders of a great lake, many 
miles in length, in magnitude exceeding Lake 
*' Cuculus Carolinienfis. 
N 2 George* 
