text:  We now enter a broad part of the river and are gliding along in front of a wide clearing some half mile long and surrounded by colossal evergreen oaks; a snug-looking house of greenish-white colour stands in the middle of the plantation with orange gardens--that are to be--laid out and enclosed in front of it; one enormous live oak that looks as if it had stood there since the flood spreading its knotty limbs over the eastern side of the habitation