WORTH AMERICA* 
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Ha, Live Oaks, and others already noticed ; and the 
oppofite point of the crefcent, gradually retires with 
hommocky projediing points, indenting the graily 
marlli.es, and lailly terminates in infinite green 
plains and meadows, united with the ikies and wa- 
ters of the lake. Such a natural landfcape, fuch a 
rural fcene, is not to be imitated by the united in- 
genuity and labour of man. At prefent the ground 
betwixt the town and the lake is adorned by an 
open grove of very tall Pine trees, which Handing 
at a confiderable diftance from each other, admit a 
delightful profpedl of the fparkling waters. The 
lake abounds with various excellent filh and wild 
fowl ; there are incredible numbers of the latter,, 
efpecially in the winter feafon, when they arrive 
here from the north to winter. 
The Indians abdicated the ancient Alachua town 
on the borders of the favanna, and built here, call- 
ing the new town Cufcowilla : their reafons for re- 
moving their habitation were on account of its un- 
healthinefs, occafioned, as they fay, by the flench 
of the putrid fifh and reptiles in the fumrtier and au- 
tumn, driven on fhore by the alligators, and the 
exhalations from marfhes of the favanna, together 
with the perfecutions of the mufquitoes. 
They plant but little here about the town ; only 
a fmall garden pot at each habitation, confiding 
of a little Lorn, Seans, T'obacco, Citruls, 
Their plantation, which fupplies them with the chief 
of their vegetable provifions, fuch as Zea, Con- 
volvulus batata, C.ucurbita eitrulus, Cue, lagenaria. 
Cue, pepo. Cue. melopepo, Cue. verrucofa. Do-? 
lichos varieties, &c. lies on the, rich prolific lands 
bordering on the great Alachua favanna, about two 
miles diftance. This plantation is one common en-* 
do fare. 
