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would fpeedily return with merchandize as hereto- 
fore ; all which was cheerfully confented to, alluring 
them their wifhes and fentiments fully coincided with 
ours. 
The chief trader, intending to fhow me fome re- 
markable barren plains, on our return to our en** 
campment, about noon we fat off: when we came? 
within fight of them, I was flruck with aftonifh- 
ment at their dreary appearance 5 the view South- 
erly feemed endlefs wafles, prefenting rocky, gra- 
velly and Tandy barren plains, producing fcarcely 
any vegetable fubftances, except a few fhrubby 
crooked Pine trees, growing out of heaps of white 
rocks, which reprefented ruins of villages, planted 
over the plains ; with clumps of mean fhrubs, which 
ferved only to perpetuate the perfecuting power 
and rage of fire, and to teftify the aridity of the 
foil. The fhrubs I obferved were chiefly the fol- 
lowing ; Myrica cerifera, two or three varieties, one 
of which is very dwarfifh, the leaves fmall, _yet 
toothed or finuated, of a yellowifh green colour* 
owing to a farinaceous pubefcence or veficula which 
covers their furfaces Prinos, varieties, Andromeda 
ferruginea, Andr. nitida, varieties, Rhamnus fran- 
gula, Sideroxylon fericium. Ilex aquifolium. Ilex 
myrtifolium, Empetrum, Kaimia ciliata, Caffine, and 
a great variety of fhrub Oaks, evergreen and deci- 
duous, fome of them lingularly beautiful $ Cory- 
pha repens ; with a great variety of herbage, par- 
ticularly Cacalia, Prenanthus, Chryfocoma, Heli-* 
anthus, Silphium, Lobelia, Globularia, Helen ium* 
Polygala, varieties, Clinopodium, Ca6tus, various 
fpecies, Euphorbia, various fpecies, Afclepias car- 
nofa, very beautiful and Angular, Sophora, Diari- 
thus, Ciftus, Sifymbrium* Pedicularis* Gerardia, 
Lechea, 
