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Show 80 EMI6RANT'S GUIDE. Iron wood, Carpinus ostry~, Hurnbeam, Carpinus Amencana!1 Chincapin, Castanea pumila, Hackberry, C"'.ltis crassifolia 1 ..1 ,~, Lauri(·r aJmonu, Cerasus ca.roliniana, Wild cherry Cer(lsus virginiana, 1 · Dogwno1, Comus florida, Swamp dogwood, Comus alba, . . 1 Cypres~, Cupressus <~Jst.•c.Ja, Pt--~ srimon, Diosp irus vrrg~mana, Beech. Fa2.:..U, S sylvestns, C om mon a.s ll , Fraxinus tomento~a, Honey locust, Gleditsi i1 triacanthos Water holJey locust, Gleditsia monosperma, Holly, . llex opaca, B it1er nut hickory, Juglan. amara., Water hickory,-lf. Juglans aquattca, Thick shell bark hickory, J u~lans lacimosa, . Nutmeg hickory, Ju!:!,lans myristacreformrs, Pignut hickory., Ju~lans porcina, Bl.ack walnut, Juglans ni~ra, Shell bark hi(,kory, J uglans squamosa, r. La'u· rus sassa1r. ras, S<lssa.ras, d Laurus benzoin, Spice woo , Laurus carolnif>nsis, Red bay' ' Liluidambar styracifyula, Sweet gum, Liriodendron tulipifera, Poplar, Maunolia glauC\1, White bay' 1\fagnolia graudifiora, Lar~e i<lUrel, 1\forus rubra, l\iulberry' N ysa aquat1· ca, TU(Je.foo, Nysa sylvatica, Bl~tck gum, Pavia lutea, Bu<·kP.ye, Pinus rie:ida, Pitch pine, Populus u angulata, Colton wood, Platanus occidentaJis, Sycamore, Quercus a lb a, White oak, Quercus aquah· ca, ~ Water oak, QuNcus falcata, Spani:;;h oak, Quercus ferruginea, Bl.sck jack oak, Quercus Jyrata, Swam}:' white oak, Quercus macrocarpa, Overcunr oak, Quercus obtusiloba, Post oak. Quercus phellos, Willow oak, Q.uercus rubra, Red oak, Q.uercus tincroria, Bl~ck oak, Tilia pubescens, Downy linden, . d the planters. The catalp~)s- now planted ext(>ns~• vt• J Y "1 0 dO' pge ltoiumslaws~ · aont dl o1.I5• gu sdeu · for posts, bournes to the land, and other purpose::~ < eman 111 ration. * This tree bears, in Loui. s.i ana, th c nam., of b~tstard paccan. EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. 81 Ulmus Americana, Mucilaginous elm, Ulmus rubra, Redel~, Ulmus aquatica, Swamp elm.*' To the above may be added an indefinite variety of vines and UR ~ derwood; such as Spanish mulberry, prickly sumach, muscadine grape vine, white wood,1' pond wood,t white thorn, blackberry briar, dew berry, several species of the smilax, and many others. On the banks of the streams immense brakes of arundo gigantea, (great cane,) and on the outer margin of the cane, the palmetto or Iatania ( ch:-tmaerops Louisiana,), fill the slope between tbe cane and the dead overflow. The cane, though found near, cannot exist upon land where its roots are subject to long and repeated immersion. The palmetto ean upport inundation a longer time and deeper than the cane, but perishes also where considerable bodies of water rest up<)n the ground where it grows. However flat the land may be where either of these vegetables is found , their presence affords a natural proof of the possibility of cultivating the land, and of the excellent qu ality of the soil. Considerable spaces in OpeJou~as that are now considered of no value, must, one day, and that at no very distant period, become ~ume of the finest parts of the country. Province of Texas-though justly claimed by the United States' government as part or Louisiana, yet as no attempt has been made to carry that claim into eff<"Cl, the local Spani h authorities have been respected . A contestation suhsistf'd bPtween France and Spain rc'specting the demarkation between their respec tive limits during the time that elapsed from the lauJing of La Salle at the mouth of the Guadaloupe, in 1683, until the ratification of tbe treaty of 1762, when France ceded Louisiana to Spain. In the Appendix to Darby's Louisiana, first fldition, and the first ehapter to the seconJ edition, may be ~een the respective epocha at which were made the v:uious discovf.!ries and settlements in Texas ·and Louisiana. From thP.se documents it will appear that the Spanish officers first passed the Rio grande del Norte in I 714 ; almost thirty years after the expedition of La SaJJe. \ lt was almost at the same time, 1717, that the ~rench arrived at Natchitoches, and the Spaniards at the Adayes, nine miles distant from each otl,er, and which respective po, ts were maintaineu from that time to the transfer oftbe governmect of Louisiana to the United States. After the establishment of the Spani~h governmen t in J 769, no change was made in the posts. Natchitoches was continued a commandary of Louisiana, and the Ada yes of Texas. But the regulations of convenience aJopted or perpetuated by the Spanish gover11· ment cannot prejudice the just claim of the United States. ~s a c?unfry, Texas is very far from being equal in fertility to the reg1ons mcluded in the vaiJeys of the Reu and l\'lississippi rivers. '~~. This ti·P-e is named by the French oJivier, or olive,from the form of its fruij, wluch bears a gt·eat r·esemblance fo tuat of the real olive. t1ets clr'1!1 pist. species of the elm gt·ows to a very large tree, and is probably a non· ~ The c two dwarf h'ees are non-descripts, and alw~ys growing on klw laud, 11 .... .,.., ~· ... |