THE MOUNTAINS OF N. CAROLINA. 
A few of his plants have not yet been re-discovered, and a 
considerable number remain among the rarest and least 
known species of the United States; it may therefore be 
useful to give a somewhat particular account of his peregri- 
nation, especially through the mountain region which he so 
diligently explored, and in which he made such important 
discoveries. For this purpose, I am fortunately supplied 
with sufficient materials, having had the opportunity of con- 
sulting the original journals of Michaux, presented by his 
son to the American Philosophical Society. I am indebted 
for this privilege to the kindness of John Vaughan, Esq., the 
Secretary of the Society, who directed my attention to these 
manuscripts, and permitted me to extract freely whatever I 
deemed useful or interesting. The first Geteste of the 
diary is wanting; but we learn from a chance record, as well 
as from published sources,* that he embarked at L'Orient on 
the 29th day of September, 1785, and arrived at New York 
on the 13th of November. The private journal from which 
the following information is derived, commences in April, 
1787 ; prior to which date he had established two gardens, or 
nurseries, to receive his collections of living plants, until 
they could be conveniently transported to France; one in 
New Jersey, near the city of New York; the SN about 
ten miles from Caden South Carolina. da the latter, it 
appears, he introduced some exotic trees, which he thought 
suitable to the climate; and the younger Michaux, who 
visited this garden several years afterwards, mentions two 
Ginkos (Salisburia’ adiantifolia), which in seven years had 
attained an elevation of thirty feet; also some fine specimens 
of Sterculia platanifolia, and a large number of young plants 
* Vide Michaux, Flora Boreali- Americana ; Introd.—See also A Sketch 
of the progress of Botany in Western America, by Dr. Short, in the 
Transylvania Journal of Medicine, No. 35; and in Hooker’s Journal of 
Botany, for November, 1840. I am informed that an interesting notice of 
Michaux is contained in the eighth volume of the Dictionnaire Encyclo- 
pédique de Botanique, (under the head of ha seat ;) a work which, un- 
fortunately, I am not able at this moment to consu 
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