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juglans hickory, acer striatum, acer rubrum, convalaria majalis, ityrax, viburnum, slaphylea, panax, acer saccharum, &c.[1]
It would appear that the Mississippi at this place, not only forms a boundary in point of soil; but is also a great line between a different zone of vegetables.
The country which we mentioned on the east side of the river, extends as far as the upper branches of the Tombigby, pretty uniformly composed of a tough clayey soil, interspersed, occasionally, with strips of good land, on the banks of some of the larger streams; and free from morasses in its whole extent.
Continuing south, the same character will apply to all the country between a parallel line drawn forty miles east from the Mississippi, and another twenty miles west from the Tombigby river, as far as the head waters of the Yazow, where the soil (with the exception of perhaps about one hundred miles in length, and thirty in breadth, which is extremely fertile, and swelled into healthful irregularities) changes its clayey complexion for one that is poor and sandy; preserving the same barren appearance all the way to the settlements on the Pearl river. An extent in width, from
- ↑ Captain Recce, an intelligent Savage, who had frequently travelled on the west side of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Missouri to the Apelusaus, informed me, that in all his perigrinations to the southward, this was the last place he had ever seen the white walnut or sugar tree.
