TRAVELS m 
33 % 
the tumuli* terraces* polls or pillars* old Peach and 
Plumb or chards, &c. fufficiently teftify. Thefe 
vales and fwelling bafes of the furrounding hills, 
afford vail crops of excellent grafs and herbage fit 
for palturage and hay ; of the latter* Plantago Vir- 
ginica* Sanguiforba* Geum, Fragaria* &c. The 
Panax quinquefolium* or Ginfeng, now appears 
plentifully on the North expofure of the hill* grow- 
ing out of the rich mellow humid earth amonglt 
the ftones or fragments of rocks. 
Having croffed the vales* I began to afcend again 
the more lofty ridges of hills, then continued about 
eight miles over more gentle pyramidal hills* nar- 
row vales and lawns, the foil exceedingly fertile* 
producing lofty forefts and odoriferous groves of 
Calycanthus, near the banks of rivers, with Halefia* 
Philadelphia inodorus, Rhododendron ferrugineum* 
Azalea, Stewartia montana,* fol. ovatis acuminatis 
ferratis* flor, niveo, ftaminum corona fulgida, peri- 
carp, pomum exfuccum* apice acuminato dehifcens* 
Cornus Florida, Styrax* all in full bloom, and de- 
corated with the following fweet roving climbers* 
Bignonia femper virens. Big. crucigera* Lonicera 
fempervirens* Rofa paniculata, &c. 
Now at once the mount divide; and difclofe to 
view the ample Occonne vale* encircled by a 
wreath of uniform hills ; their fwelling bafes clad 
in cheerful verdure, over which, iffuing from be- 
tween the mountains* plays along a glittering river, 
meandering through the meadows. Croffing thefe 
at the upper end of the vale* I began to afcend the 
Occonne mountain. On the foot of the hills are 
* This is a new fpecies of Stewartia, unknown to the European botanifts, 
and not mentioned in any catalogues. 
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