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better notion of the true status of the United States. 

 The unfortunate Brissot also, who was in America in 

 1788, could not pardon Chastellux his lightness of 

 touch. 



The Italian conte was Luigi Castiglioni, whose 

 Travels, immediately following those of Schoepf and 

 covering a wider territory (from Canada to Georgia) 

 are similar in treatment : the observations primarily of 

 a botanist with notes on conditions in general. A com- 

 parison of Schoepf with Kalm and Castiglioni brings 

 out Schoepf 's merits strongly, his sense of proportion 

 and his gift for informing the commonplace and the 

 technical with an individuality. Castiglioni belonged 

 to the great family of that name, and was as thorough 

 a botanist, no doubt, as America saw for many years 

 after the Revolution. The title of his book was, 



" Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America Settentrio- 

 nale, fatto negli anni 1785, 1786, e 1787, da Luigi Cas- 

 tiglioni, Patrizio Milanese, Cavaliere dell' Ordine di 

 S. Stefano P. M., membro della Societa Filosofica di 

 Filadelfia e della Patriotica di Milano. 



Con Alcune Osservazioni sui Vegetabili piu utile di 

 quel Paese. Milano, 1790." 



[Two volumes, the greater part of the second being 

 careful descriptions of plants, arranged alphabetically.] 



Captain Von Wangenheim of the Hessian Chasseurs, 

 published in 1787, at Gottingen, Beschreibung cini^cr 

 nordamerikanischen Holzartcn, mit Anwcndun-g auf 

 deutsche Forste, mit 36 originalzcichnnngcn. gr. fol. 



The reference to Crevecoeur's Lettres d'lin Cultira- 

 teur Americain is to the Paris edition of 1787, three 



