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past, when once the morning sun makes its appearance, all 
troubles are over and almost forgotten. Every one is en- 
gaged in breaking up camp, talking about the most probable 
adventures of the coming day; some prepare to hunt the 
buffalo or bison, some the antelope, and others to go in 
search of strayed horses, &c. Perhaps a bellowing band of 
bisons rushes across the river, or a troop of wild horses 
appear prancing in the morning sun, and dashing over the 
plains, or a capering antelope is seen on the brow of the hills, 
or something else to add excitement to the scene. Quickly 
the whole cavalcade has mounted again, and proceeds onward 
through that inhospitable and dangerous wilderness. 
(To be continued.) 
Proposed Botanical Journey of MR. ALEXANDER GORDON, 
to the Mountains of Texas, &c. 
Not only did Mr. Charles Geyer accompany Sir William 
Stewart into the Rocky Mountains, but an equally indefati- 
gable Scottish Botanist was of the party, Mr. Alexander Gor- 
don, who had been long resident in the United States, 
and had thence transmitted many rare seeds and roots to 
Europe. On his return from that journey, he lost by ship- 
wreck a great part of his collections soon after his embarkation 
at New Orleans for England. Among what remained, seeds 
of several rare plants have been reared, and a considerable 
collection of exquisitely dried specimens came into the pos- 
session of Mr. H. Shepherd, Curator of the Liverpool Bota- 
nic > Garden, and Mr. Lawson of Edinburgh. Through their 
ess, my Herbarium has been enriched with many of 
these plants, and I shall have occasion to notice several, 
when treating of those of Mr. Geyer in the present Journal. , 
Sl bent on prosecuting his researches i in the less known 
parts of the south-western portions of North America, Mr. 
3 Gordon embarked again for the United States in the autumn 
E of last year ; and his firat letter t to me si the informa- T 
