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the branches for seventy miles below the falls have reed, - fern thence down there are bay galls and dwarf evergreens, cypress ponds with some live oak. Between these rivers, there is some? good unclear and black oak land, strewed over with iron ore, and the ridge dividing their waters has a vein of it extending itself in the direction with the ridge. Within 25 miles of the confluence of the rivers, the live oak is to be? seen near all the ponds, and here are Limestone sinks. The land here is good in veins - in the flats & in the margins of the rivers. The trees of every description small. The range, a fine one for cattle. That extensive body of land between Flint river, Oke,fin,o,gau?, A,la,t,am a, ha? and the Eastern boundary of the Creek claims, is poor pine land with cypress ponds & bay grass. The small streams are margined with dwarf evergreens. The uplands have yellow pine with dwarf sawpalmetto unclear grass. The bluffs in St Illas are some part of them sandy pine barren; the remainder a compact, stiff, yellowish sand or clay, with large swamps, the growth the Loblolly bay, gum & small ever-greens. The whole of these swamps are bogs. In the rainy season, which commences after midsummer, the ponds fill, and then the country is a great part of it covered with water; & in the dry season it is difficult to obtain water in any direction for many miles. The Bees abound in the Oke,fin o cau? and other swamps eastward of the Flint River. The whortleberry is to be found in the swamps and in the poorest of the land bordering