8 BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO 
ce voyage. J'offre de communiquer toutes les connaissances 
en histoire naturelle que j’acquerrai dans ce voyage."  Re- 
maining at Philadelphia and its vicinity until the following 
summer, he set out for Kentucky, in July, 1793, with the 
object of exploring the Western States, which no botanist 
had yet visited, and also of conferring with Gen. Clarke, at 
Mr. Jefferson's request, on the subject of his contem- 
plated journey to the Rocky Mountains, &c. He crossed the 
Alleghanies in Pennsylvania, descended the Ohio to Louis- 
ville, Kentucky, traversed that State and Western Virginia to 
Abingdon, and again travelled through the Valley of Virginia to 
Winchester, Harper's Ferry, &c. arriving at Philadelphia on 
the 12th of December of the same year. Conferences re- 
specting his projected expedition were now renewed, in which 
M. Genet, the envoy from the French republic, took a pro- 
minent part; but here the matter seems to have dropped, - 
since no further reference is made to the subject in the - 
journal; and Michaux left Philadelphia in February, 1794, 
on another tour to the Southern States. In J uly of that year, 
he again visited the mountains of North Carolina, travelling 
from Charleston to Turkey Cove, by his usual route. On this 
occasion he ascended the Linville Mountain, and the other 
mountains in the neighbourhood; but having * différé à 
cause du manque des provisions," he left his old quarters, 
at (Ainsworth's) crossed the Blue Ridge, and established 
himself at Crab Orchard, on Joe River. From this place he 
revisited the Black Mountain, and, accompanied by his new 
guide, Davenport, explored the Yellow Mountain, the Roan, 
and finally the Grandfather, the summit of which he at- 
tained on the 30th of August.* Returning to the house of — 
toute l'Amérique Septentrionale, chanté avec mon compagnon-guide 
l'hymne de la Marseillaise, et crié, * Vive la Liberté et la République Fran- 
çaise.” " If this enthusiasm were called forth by mere elevation, he should 
have chanted his pans on the Black Mountain and the Roan, both of which — 
are higher than the Grandfather. 
