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the sources of the Tennessee, and thence returned to Charleston, 

 having travelled three hundred leagues through Carolina and 

 Georgia. Many of his notes contain remarks on the most interest- 

 ing plants which he met with, and even point out the places where 

 they were discovered, in such precise terms that it would still be 

 ^asy to find them out. In 1788 and the following year, he suc- 

 cessively visited Florida, the Bahama Islands, and Virginia. On 

 the 1st of July he arrived at Washington Court House^ a hamlet 

 in the latter State, which then passed for the first town in that 

 part of the world, though it contained only " twelve wooden 

 houses," and could aftbrd but indifferent cheer to the traveller. 

 After other excursions to different parts of the Union, attended 

 with more or less success, he came to Canada, in 1792 ; having 

 spent some seven or eight years in the United States. His first re- 

 searches in passing from one country into the other, were made 

 on both shores of Lake Champlain, where he noticed many plants, 

 — all mentioned in his flora. Then directing his course towards 

 Montreal, he arrived 'in this city on the 30th of June, and having 

 remained here only a few days, started for Quebec. On his way 

 down he stopped at Sorel, and there found the Rhodora Canaden- 

 sis. His sojourn in the ancient metropolis of Canada was also 

 of short duration, as it was important he should avoid being over- 

 taken by winter in his progress northward. Having sailed down 

 the St. Lawrence as far as the Saguenay, he landed at Tadousac, 

 the first out-post of the Hudson's Bay Company in that direction, 

 situated at the entrance of the river, and at one time much fre- 

 quented by the Indians for the purpose of trading ; it is now a 

 pretty village. Here he remained a few days, during which 

 he collected some specimens. He next ascended the Saguenay in 

 a bark canoe, and earlj in August reached Chicoutimi, where the 

 river ceases to be navigable for large vessels. As his way to Lake 

 St. John lay through an almost unex^^lored wilderness, and as the 

 journey had never been undertaken except by aborigines, and a 

 few missionaries, he secured the services of a half-breed and three 

 Indians, with whomhe proceeded up the river Chicoutimi and Lake 

 Kinogami, and, after a short portage, through Lake Kinogam- 

 ichich, down the Aulnet Kiver and Belle Riviere, thus reaching 

 Lake St. John after six days' travelling. At Lake Kinogami he 

 found an aquatic plant, Lobelia Dortmanna, which has not 

 since been met with there ; its light blue corolla floats upon the 

 surface, while the leaves are entirely submerged. Michaux dis- 

 covered many specimens on the shores of Lake St. John ; and he 



