Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-06-08

accordingly halted upon the field ofi.
of necessity content with the success
had obtained and having collec,s5
stragglers, and called upon the nurs,I
it was resolved to pass the niobt j.
situation.-Fires were therefors ILL.,,
and the troops distributed in sucLe ~
ner, as to secure tolerable po,it;o u
case of attack, and the wounds5 W.
removed into two or three houses scate
ed along the ground, the victors Low -"
under the canopy ofheavenn N"S
FLORIDA.
From the Rhode Island Manufacturer, L..
na!.
The following description Of par, ofE.
da in the vicinity oil Fort Gadsden VIII
found interesting. 1t is contaipeSi
letter from friend. IL the Editor, did
" Fort Gad,den, .apnls,
-" My personal observation, of tb, CIV,
try has been hitherto confined to The vie;,,,
OF Ibis place, which is at present, a p.,Ie
wilderness. There are no white iub,,i.
tants, except a few Indian traders, u.,,,
than the Georgia line, seventy miles distant
and all our communications with the wor
lead through deep aid extensive swamp !
except that by the Gulf. The mesepp.I
who is sent to convey letters. &c. betwe,d
this place and Fort Scott, is obliged 10 wi.
across creeks and lagoons on bis way. TbI
route to Pensacola, on the west, is YER, eij
cuitous and. more than three hundred nil.
long. We have had no intercourse vii
that place since came here, and but lid
with the fort Of ST Marks, which lies 70
eighty miles to tie east, and is divide
from US by an almost entire tract Of swan
intersected by large rivers. The gensr
face OF the country, for sixty miles from
coast, is made of swamps covered with be-
Wy timber, and generally overlooked ID
low pine lands which sometimes rise id
bluffs 6 or 10 feet above the level Of the va
ter. Fort Gadsden Is on one Of these latte
and Pensacola on another, very extensive
high, which lying open to the sea, accoaA
for the healtbiness of that place. Inn
diately on the shore Of the Gulf, all along
far as have observed it, the storms b
piled up the sand in Ridges, parallel
the shore. and in some places to the hes
Of twenty or 80 feet. These ridges ga
rally extend half mile or more from
Gull, lying parallel to each other and ea'
'eavy seas. The river ApslsehicoIa is ,JoI
SO miles long. lis bakessfe overaumd
'early all the way in some p,s..ss-. ssts,
niles back. This overlooked part is COZ,
ID with very thick growth Of almost ever
iInd of tree common at the north, as We
IS great variety peculiar 10 the Soulh :
particularly cypress, from which The swamp
derive the name OF cypress swamps Al
hese trees grow remarkably large and BEL,
IN great abundance a singular kind of mos
which is thought to subsist entirely upon ,hs
niasmata IN the air. II has no roofs
nor any radical connection With the tree
but only hangs over the limbs in the same
manner as If it hac been placed their by lb,
nand. 1t has grey color. and in the VIM
Ter when the leaves have fallen, il giTeslhd
'unken foresta most dismalappearanee \
from the North would suppose h,l
he trees were all dead, and that The whole
country was gradually sinking into one vi
ery grave. But the spring changed lie
prospect entirely. The hoary moss is nov
by most Iuxurlant foliage, Wild
rom the great variety Of trees, presents a.
most every shade of green, and iuml'hs'i
delicious feast o tie eye and The scene
low beginning to be still more enriched y
he blooming of the magnolia, which I'i
Iced the king (or at least president) OIL ~
lowers. This tree occupies 1 very coa'Oe
able share Of the forest, and is always co.,
'picuous for the great size and deep gHs
colour of its leaves; when in bloom, II 81"
'ered with milk white blossoms, The sn'r
est of which exceeds in circumference ~
crown of my hat, "a comparison more U"
han poetical.) These emit asWesl oO'
which fills the whole atmosphere. ba
his elysian scene is but a gilded sepu'''"
Within is contained all manner oil ae'us
and the abodes Of poisonous ln*''
md huge snakes"
Neu York, Ju"A
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