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is twelve miles Weft from — — Moore’s, Bftp 
whole villa is on the banks of t'Ke North Weft. 
Proceeding again up the North Weft, crofted 
Carver's creek, and flopped at Afhwood, the an- 
cient feat ot Colonel William Rartram. The houfe 
ftancls on the high banks of the river, near feventy 
feet m height above the furface of the watery this 
high bluff continues two or three miles on the river, 
and commando a magnificent profped of the low 
'lands oppolite, when in their native flate, prefenting 
to the view grand forefts and expanfive Cane mea- 
dows : the trees which compofe thefe forefts are ge- 
nerally of the following tribes, Quercus tindoria, 
Querc. alba, Querc. phillos, Querc. aquatica, Querc* 
hemifpherica, Fraxinus excelfior, Platanus occiden- 
talis, Liriodendron tulipifera, Liquidambar ftyraci- 
flua, Ulmus, Tilia, Juglans hiccory, Juglans cine- 
rea, Juglans nigra, Morus rubra, Gleditfia triacan- 
thus, 6 Hopea tindoria, Nyfta aquatica, Nyfia fylva- 
tica, Carpinus, and many more; the Cupreftus 
difucha as (lately and beautiful as I have feen any 
■■where. When thefe lands are cleared of their tim- 
ber and cultivated, they produce abundantly, parti- 
cularly Wheat, Zea, Cotton, Hemp, Flax, with 
variety of excellent vegetables. This perpendicu- 
lar bank of the river, by which the waters fwiftly 
glide along, difcovers at once the various ftrata 
of the earth of this low maritime country. For 
the moft part, the upper ftratum confifls of a 
light, Tandy, pale, ‘ yeliotfifh mould or loam, for 
ten or twelve feet in depth (ekcept the flat level 
land back from the 4 rivers, where the clays or 
marie approach very near the 1 furface, and the 
ridges of land hills, where the 1 clays lie much 
deeper): this Tandy mould or loam lies upon a 
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