PREFACE, dx 
take a more extensive range for my botanical excursions, 
which during my stay at the Woodlands had been eon- 
fined within a comparatively small compass, the neces- 
sary attention to the duties of that establishment not Laos 
mitting me to devote more time to them. _ 
- Accordingly, in the beginning of 1805, I set out for — 
; the mountains and western territories of the Southern — 
States, beginning at Maryland and extending to the Ca- 
rolinas, (in which tract the interesting high mountains of 
E Xen and. WS pet: my €— peas 2 
lowing season, 1806, d went in ile manner over the 
Northern States, beginning with the mountains of Pen- 
sylvania and extending to those of New Hampshire, (in 
which tract I traversed the extensive and highly interest- 
ing country of the Lesser and Great ra and — 
as before by the sea-coast. —. 
eames " principally made on foor, me 
Í sc x Miis three- PRB miles ei season, wife 
| — ether companions than my dog and gun, frequently tak- 
f a ing up my lodging in the midst of wild mountains and 
i — . impenetrable forests, far remote from the habitations of 
Ld E . men. The collections and observations made in the 
| . .. eourse of these journeys, all of which I communicated to 
|. Dk Barton, were considerable, in respect to the dis~ 
|. eovery-of many new and interesting subjects of natural: 
| history im general. But the knowledge which I thereby 
~ aequired of the geography, soil, and situation of the 
plants of that country, (points of the greatest interest 
