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tingle plantation, have been entirely deftroyed, to 
make room for the Indigo, Cotton, Corn, Batatas, 
&zc. or, as they fay, to extirpate the mufquitoes, al- 
ledging that groves near the dwellings are haunts 
and fixe kefs for thofe persecuting infefks. Some plan- 
tations have not a (ingle tree (landing ; and where 
any have been left, it is only a (mail coppice or clump, 
nakedly expofed and ddtiture ; perhaps fifty or an 
hundred trees (landing near the dwelling- boufe, hav- 
ing no lofty cool grove of expanfive Live Oaks, 
Laurel Magnolias, and Balms, to (hade and prated! 
them, exhibiting a mournful, fallow countenance : 
their native perfectly formed and glofify green fo- 
liage as if violated, defaced, and torn to pieces by 
the bleak winds, fcorched by the burning fun-beams 
in fummer, and chilled by the winter frofts. 
In the evening I took up my quarters in the beau- 
tiful iile in fight of Mount Royal. Next day, af- 
ter collecting what was new and worthy of particu- 
lar nonce, I fet fail again, and called by the way at 
Mount Royal. In the evening arrived fafe at the 
ftores, bringing along with me valuable colle&ions* 
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