MORTH AMERICA. 
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There are to be feen plain marks or vefliges of 
the old Spanifh plantations and dwellings ; as fence 
polls and wooden pillars of their houfes, ditches, and 
even corn ridges and Batata hills. From the In- 
dian accounts, the Spaniards had here a rich well 
cultivated and populous fettlement, and a ftrong 
fortified pofl, as they likewife had at the favanna 
and fields of Capola ; but either of them far infe- 
rior to one they had fome miles farther fouth-weft 
towards the Apalachuchla River, now called the 
Apalachean Old Fields, where yet remain vafl works 
and buildings, as fortifications, temples, fome brafs 
cannon, mortars, heavy church bells, &c. 
The fame groups of whitifh teflaceous rocks and 
circular finks, with natural w 7 ells, make their ap- 
pearance in thefe groves and fields, as obferved on 
the fide of the river oppofite to Capola; and the 
fame trees, fhrubs, and herbage without variation. 
Having palfed five or fix miles through thefe ancient 
fields and groves, the feene fuddenly changes, after 
riding through a high foreft of Oak, Magnolia, 
Fraxinus, Liquidambar, Fagus fylvatica, &c. 
Now at once opens to view, perhaps, the moft 
extenfive Cane-break * that is to be feen on the face 
of the whole earth ; right forward, about fouth- 
wefl, there appears no bound but the fkies, the 
level plain, like the ocean, uniting with the firma- 
ment, and on the. right and left hand, dark fhaded 
groves, old fields, and high forefls, fuch as we 
had lately pafied through. 
The alternate bold promontories and mifty points 
advancing and retiring, at length, as it were, infenfi- 
* Cane meadows, fo called by the inhabitants of Carolina, kc. 
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