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body Teemed but as a light fhadow, and my exig- 
ence as a pleafing delirium, for I fometimes doubted 
of its reality. I however from that moment be- 
gan to mend, until my health was perfectly reftored ; 
but it was feveral weeks before I could expofe my 
eyes to open day light, and at laft 1 found my left 
eye confiderably injured, which buffered the great- 
eft pain and weight of the difeafe. 
As Toon as I acquired ftrength to walk about, and 
bear the lead impreffion of open day light on my 
eyes, I made frequent, indeed I may fay daily ex- 
curfions in and about this illand, {trolling through 
its awful {hades, venerable groves and fublime fo- 
refts, confiding of the Live Oaks and Magnolia 
grandiflora, Laurus Borbonia, Olea Americana, 
Fagus fylvatica, Laur. Saffafras, Quercus hemi- 
fpherica, Tilia, Liquidambar ftyracifiua, Morns, 
Gleditfia, Callicarpa, Halefia, &c. 
The ifland is fix or feven miles in length, and 
four or five in width, including the fait marfhes and 
plains, which inveft it on every fide, I believe we 
may only except a narrow ftrand at the South end 
of it, walked by Lake Borgone at the Regullets, 
which is a promontory compofed of banks of Tea- 
Ihells and fand caft up by the force of winds, and 
the furf of the Lake ; thefe {hells are chiefly a fmall 
fpecies of white clam ihells, called les coquilles. 
Here are a few fhrubs growing on thefe fhelly 
heights, viz. Rhamnus frangula, Sideroxylon, My- 
rica, Zanthoxylon clava Herculis, Juniperus Ame- 
ricana, Lyfium falfum ; together with feveral new 
genera and fpecies of the herbaceous, and fuffruti- 
cofe tribes, Croton, Stillingia, &c. but particularly 
a Ipecies of Mimofa (Mimofa virgata), which in 
refpeft of the elegancy of its pinnated leaves, can- 
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