MORTH AMERICA, 
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and on the high Tandy knolls and fwelling ridges^ 
Quercus nigra, Quercus flammula, Quercus incana* 
with various other trees and fhrubs as already noted, 
inhabiting hich (ituations. The rivulets however 
exhibited a different appearance ; they are (hallower; 
eourfe more fwiftly over gravelly beds, and their 
banks are adorned with Illicium groves. Magnolias, 
Azaleas, Halefia, Andromedas, &c. The higheff 
hills near large creeks afford high foreils with abun- 
dance of Chefiiut trees. 
We now approached the bay Mobile* gently aff 
tending a hilly diftridl, being the highefc foreft ad- 
joining the extenfive rich low lands of the river % 
thefe heights are fomewhat encumbered with peb- 
bles, fragments and cliffs of rufty ferruginous rocks ; 
the (tones were ponderous and indicated very rich 
iron ore; here was a fmall diftridt of good land, 
on the acclivities and bafes of thefe ridges, and a 
level foreft below, watered by a fine creek, running 
into the Mobile. From hence we proceeded, again 
defcending, and travelled about nine miles generally 
over a level country eonfifting of favannas, Cane 
fwamps, and gently riftng knolls, producing Finns 
fed a, Nyffa fylvatica, Quercus rubra, Fagus cafta- 
nea, Fraxinus, with other trees. Arrived at Ta- 
enfa, a pretty high bluff* on the Ealtern channel 
of the great Mobile river, about thirty miles above 
fort Conde, or city of Mobile, at the head of the 
bay. 
Next day early in the morning I embarked in a 
boat, and proceeded for Mobile, along the banks of 
(Hands (near twenty miles) which lay in the middle 
of the river, between the Eaftern and Wefterri 
fhores of the main : the banks of thefe low flat rich 
iflands are well cultivated, having on them extenfive 
JD d farms 
