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condemned to die ; as the area is furrounded by 
a bank, and fometimes two of them, one behind 
and above the other, as feats, to accommodate the 
fpe&ators at fuch tragical fcenes, as well as the 
exhibition of games, fhows, and dances. From 
the river St. Joans, Southerly, to the point of the 
peninfula of Florida, are to be feen high pyrami- 
dal mounts with fpacious and extenfive avenues, 
leading from them out of the town, to an artifi- 
cial lake or pond of water ; thefe were evidently 
defigned in part for ornament or monuments of 
magnificence, to perpetuate the power and gran- 
deur of the nation, and not inconfiderable neitheh 
for they exhibit fcenes of power and grandeur, and 
mull have been public edifices. 
The great mounts, highways, and artificial lakes 
up St r Juans, on the Eaft fhore, juft at the entrance 
of the great Lake George, one on the oppofite 
fhore, on the bank of the Little Lake, another 
on Dunn’s Ifland, a little below Charlotteville, 
one on the large beautiful Ifland juft without the 
Capes of Lake George, in fight of Mount Royal, 
and a fpacious one on the Weft banks of the 
Mufquitoe river near New Smyrna, are the moft 
remarkable of this fort that occurred to me, but 
undoubtedly many more are yet to be difcovered 
farther South in the peninfula ; however I obferved 
none Weftward, after I left St Juans, on my jour- 
ney to little St. Juan, near the bay of Apalache. 
But in all the region of the Mufcogulge coun- 
try, South- Weft from the Oakmulge river quite 
to the Tallapoofe, down to the city of Mobile, 
and thence along the fea coaft, to the Mifliflipi, 
I faw no flgns of mountains or highways, except 
at Taenfa, where were feveral inconfiderable co- 
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