NORTH AMERICA. 
autumn, does not continue long. The day was 
employed in coafdng (lowly, and making collec- 
tions. In the evening I made an harbour under co- 
ver of a long point of flat rocks, which defended 
the mole from the furf. Having fafely moored my 
bark, and chofen my camping ground juft by, dur- 
ing the fine evening I reconnoitred the adjacent 
groves and lawns. Here is a defer ted plantation, 
the property of Dr. Stork, where he once refided. 
I obferved many lovely ftirubs and plants in the old 
fields and Orange groves, particularly feveral fpe- 
cies of Convolvulus and Ipomea, the former having 
very large, white, fweet fcented flowers : they are 
great ramblers, climbing and {trolling on the ftirubs 
and hedges. Next morning I re-embarked, and 
continued traverftng the bold ccaft north-eaftward, 
and fearching the fhores at all convenient landings, 
where 1 was amply rewarded for my aftiduity in the 
fociety of beauties in the blooming realms of Flo*- 
rida. Came to agad> at an old deferted planta- 
tion, the property of a Britifh gentleman, but fome 
years fince vacated. A very fpacious frame build- 
ing was fettling to the ground and mouldering to 
earth. Here are very extend ve old fields, where 
were growing the Weft-Indian or perennial Cotton 
and Indigo, which had been cultivated here, and 
fome mattered remains of the ancient orange groves, 
which had been left Handing at the clearing of the 
plantation. 
I have often been affe&ed with extreme regret, 
at beholding the cleftruction and devaftation which 
has been committed or indifcreetly exercifed on 
ihofe extenftve fruitful Orange groves, on the banks 
of St. Juan, by the new planters under the Britifti 
government, fome hundred acres of which, at a 
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