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up for provifion. Thefe Grape vines do not climb 
into high trees, but creep along from one low 
fhrub to another, extending their branches to a 
great diftance horizontally round about ; and it is 
very pleafing to behold the clufters pendant from 
the vines, almoft touching the earth ; indeed fome 
of them lie upon the ground. 
W e now entered a very remarkable grove of Dog 
wood trees (Camus Florida), which continued nine 
or ten miles unalterable, except here and there a 
towering Magnolia grandiflora; the land on which 
they Hand is an exabl level : the furface a fh allow, 
loofe, black mould, on a llratum of faff, yellowifh 
clay. Thefe trees were about twelve feet high, 
fpreading horizontally ; their limbs meeting and 
interlocking with each other, formed one vail, 
ihady, cool grove, fo denfe and humid as to 
exclude the fun-beams, and prevent the intru- 
fion of almoft every other vegetable, affording 
us a moil defxrabie fhelter from the fervid fun- 
beams at noon-day. This admirable grove by way 
of eminence has acquired the name of the Dog 
woods. 
During a progrefs of near feventy miles, through 
this high forefl, there conftantiy prefented to -view 
on one hand or the other, fpacious groves of this 
fine flowering tree, which mu ft, in the fpring fea- 
fon, when covered with bloffoms, prefent a moil plea- 
ftng fcene ; when at the fame time a variety of other 
fweet fhrubs difplay their beauty, adorned in their 
gay apparel, as the Halefia, Stewartia, iEfculus pa- 
via, JEfc. alba, i£fc. Florid, ramis divaricatis, thyr- 
fts grandis, flofculis expands incarnatis, Azalea, &c. 
entangled with garlands of Bignonia crucigera, 
. ' Big. 
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