THE MOUNTAINS OF N. CAROLINA. 5 
several sub-tropical plants, now well known to be indigenous 
to Florida, but which are not noticed in his Flora; such as 
the Mangrove, Guilandina Bonduc, Sophora occidentalis, two 
or three Ferns, and especially the Orange.* Leaving Florida 
at the beginning of June, he returned by land to Savannah 
and Charleston, where he was confined by sickness the re- 
mainder of the summer. Late in the autumn, however, he 
made a second excursion to the sources of the Savannah, 
chiefly to obtain the roots and seeds of the remarkable plants 
he had previously discovered. He pursued the same route 
as before, except that he ascended the Tugaloo, instead of the 
Seneca or Theowee river; crossing over to the latter, and 
climbing the higher mountains about its sources in the in- 
clement month of December, when they were mostly covered 
with snow, he at length found some trees of Magnolia cordata, 
to obtain which was the principal object of this arduous 
journey. Retracing his steps, he reached Charleston at the 
end of December, with a large collection of living trees, 
roots and seeds. "The remainder of the winter, Michaux 
passed in the Bahama Islands, returning to Charleston in the 
month of May. Early in June, he set out upon a journey to 
a different portion of the mountains of North Carolina, by 
way of Camden, Charlotte (the county town of Mecklenburg), 
and Morganton, reaching the higher mountains at * Turkey 
Cove, thirty miles from Burke Court House" (probably the 
head of Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Catawba), on the 
l5th of June. From this place he made an excursion to the 
Black Mountain, in what is now Yancey County, and after- 
wards to the Yellow Mountain, which Michaux at that time 
considered to be the highest mountain in the United States. 
If the Roan be included in the latter appellation, as I believe 
it often has been, this opinion is not far from the truth; 
since the Black Mountain alone exceeds it, according to Pro- 
fessor Mitchell’s recent measurements. Descending this 
* Les bois étaient remplis d'oranges aigres, etc." Michaux, Moss.— 
See also Bartram's Travels, and Torr. and Gray, Flor. of North America, 
i p.223; 
