ALEXANDER WILSON. liii 
crossed it, are im 
which the road ®°l'tary pine savannas, through 
with alligator, ‘‘moog stagnant ponds, swarming 
brandy, over ’ of the colour of 
without railiniT thrown high vvooden bridges, 
“’"m one’s hor “’n “'’y 
"'hicb, to a stram^cr f > *'"“r'«ous cypress swamps, 
“Ppcarance. Picture'Tf “ "“'‘V,"®’ ‘‘,‘^^t.late, and ruinous 
^tL’es, rising, as thick as thev"^!*^ ^ ^”'^*^** prodigious 
and impenetrable morass covered 
ground with reeds. The lend the 
are clothed with fmexSordl tr. 
Usneouks,) from two to ten feJt V"' • '"******’ ^ 
thut lii'ty ineu on ^ ^luantities, 
Nothing^., i^s^lt 
In^S^al-TAvm-eT'lf Umber! 
wind. I attim Iterfo 
^'-‘‘ntps with my r b sw r r"f““ 
®*cept in some choice nla ’ r r “* new ; but, 
Ucable. I . . , * ^ ^ ^‘""id rt altogctlier imnrac- 
Places, and was^unwr^d however, in many 
greens, of numberless soru^ ‘ '® Sreat profusion of ever. 
1 knew nothinir of T 4 t r''* ”n'«-'ty of berries that 
‘kat never winter’ 'm ^ ^nund multitudes of birds, 
abundance.” Pennsylvania, living h, 
savanniis^mid ^ ™kc through solitary ping 
'"kes without '"'r'"'" ’ sometimes thirty 
nt the w f ®®‘n"g a hut or human being. On arrivimr 
r» - r:;; ft' t “t ■ "*'™ 
plantation, I ."“l* "“'’‘’1'"’ "'1“° k''® on their rice 
S®nti;m“;t‘i>''-' l‘TT 1 O'*® of 
hundred headTl’ bkeks P ‘ 
