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River to “Squire Hampton’s,” where we took a guide and 
ascended the Roan Mountain. While tracing up the Little Doe 
River, about three miles from its junction with the larger 
stream so called, at one of the numerous places where the road 
crosses this rivulet, we again met with Carez Fraseriana. This 
plant did not seem so abundant here in Tennessee, as on the 
Grandfather ; but is doubtless plentiful on the mountain side 
just above. We climbed the north flank of the Roan, 
through the heavily timbered woods and rank herbage with 
which it is covered; but found nothing new to us, except 
Streptopus lanuginosus in fruit, and among the groves of 
Rhododendron maximum towards the top we also collected 
Diphyscium foliosum, a moss which we had not before seen in 
a living state. In more open moist places near the summit, 
we found the Hedyotis (Houstonia) serpyllifolia, still beauti- 
fully in bloom, and the Geum geniculatum, which we have 
already noticed. It was just sunset when we reached the 
bald and grassy summit of this noble mountain, and after 
enjoying for a moment the magnificent view it affords, had 
barely time to prepare our encampment between two dense 
clumps of Rhododendron Catawbiense, to collect fuel, and 
make ready our supper. The night was so fine, that our 
slight shelter of Balsam boughs proved amply sufficient ; the 
thermometer, at this elevation of about 6,000 feet above the 
level of the sea, being 64° Fahr. at midnight, and 60° at sun- 
rise. The temperature of a spring, immediately under the 
brow of the mountain below our encampment, we found to 
be 47° Fahr. The Roan Mountain is well characterize? by 
P rof. Mitchell, as the easiest of access, and the most beau- 
tiful of all the high mountains of that region. “With the 
exception of a body of (granitic) rocks, looking like the ruins 
of an old castle, near its south-western extremity, the top 
may be described as a vast meadow, (about nine miles in 
ength, with some interruptions, and with a maximum eleva- 
tion of 6038 feet) without a tree to obstruct the prospect; 
Where a person may gallop his horse for a mile or two, with 
Carolina at his feet on one side, and Tennessee on the other, 
