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town of New Smyrna, Bartram observes, “ I was there 
about 10 years ago, (1764), when the surveyor run the 
lines of the colony, where there was neither habitation nor 
cleared field. It was then a famous Orange grove, the 
upper or south promontory of a ridge nearly half a mile 
wide, and stretching north about 40 miles,” &c. All this 
was one entire Orange grove, with Live Oaks, Magnolias, 
Palms, Red Bays, and others. (Bartram’s Travels, in a 
note to page 144.) On page 253, he also remarks, “I have 
often been affected with extreme regret, at beholding the 
destruction and devastation which has been committed, or 
indiscreetly exercised on those extensive fruitful Orange 
groves, on the banks of St. Juan, by the new planters under 
the British government, some hundred acres of which, at 
a single plantation, have been entirely destroyed, to make 
room for the Indigo, Cotton, Corn,” &c. 
In the forests of Essequibo there appears to be a variety 
of this species of Orange, equally indigenous with the pre- 
sent, it is also wild about Vera Cruz, and near Mexico and 
Panuco,* and is indigenous in Porto Rico, Barbadoes, 
and the Bermudas, as well as in Brazil, and St. Jago of 
the Cape Verd Islands. Hughes also speaks of it in 
his time as being natural in the W’oods at Orange Bay in 
Jamaica, both the sweet and sour kinds in great plenty. 
The specimens which I have seen brought from East Flo- 
rida, by Mr. James Reed, are evidently referable to the 
present species, the Orange of India, though we have not 
had the satisfaction of seeing any specimen of the fruit; 
but, according to Bartram, the taste is sufficiently grateful, 
as he made use of it to season and add a relish to his 
animal food. 
India is the native country of the Orange now so gene- 
rally naturalized in the south of Europe, particularly along 
* Phillips in Hakluyt’s Voyages, 1. c. 
