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Alabama is margined with cane swamps & these in places with flats of good land, or poor pine flats. The swamp at the confluence with Tombigly (sic: Tombigby) and below on the Mobile, is low & subject to be overflowed every spring. Above, it is of great width, interjected with lakes, slashes, & crooked drains and much infested with musketoes. The people who cultivate this swamp never attempt to fence it, as the annual freshes (sic: freshets), always in the spring, rise from there to ten feet over it. The land bordering on the swamp and for a mile back, is a poor, stiff clay, the growth, pine & underbrush; back of this broken pine barren, then cypress ponds & veins of reeds in the branches. The range said to be a fine one for cattle. The settlement of Ta,en,sau borders on the Mobile and Alabama on the left side. On the same side of Alabama 50 miles above its confluence with Tombigby the high broken lands commence & extend for 60 or 70 miles upwards & abound in places with large fine tall cedar.

 The land between Alabama & Ko,e,ne,cuh below the plains is broken or waving; the soil stiff, very red in places, and gravelly for 30 miles, then stiff pine barren. Limestone, a creek which enters the Alabama, has some good broken land with limestone, which gives name to the Creek. At its source there is a fine body of land called the "dry woods", - the growth, oak, chestnut, poplar, lind and dogwood. This vein of land is nearly 20 miles in length & 8 wide. The dogwood is very thick set and some of them large, ten inches diameter; the whole finely watered.

linden tree - a sort of cotton tree