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THE MOUNTAINS OF N. CAROLINA. 9 
his guide, he visited Table Mountain on the 5th of Septem- 
ber, and proceeded, by way of Morganton, Lincolnton, Salis- 
bury, and Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Charleston, where 
he passed the winter. 
On the 19th day of April, 1795, our indefatigable traveller 
again set out, reached the Santee River, at Nelson’s Ferry, 
ascended the Wateree or Catawba, to Flat-Rock Creek, visited 
Flat Rock,* crossed Hanging-Rock Creek, and ascended the 
little Catawba to Lincolnton. In the early part of May, he 
re-visited Linville Mountain, the Yellow Mountain, the Roan, 
and some others, and then descended Joe River and the 
Holston to Knoxville, Tennessee. Thence, crossing the Cum- 
berland Mountains, and a wilderness one hundred and twenty 
miles in extent, he arrived at Nashville on the 16th of June, 
at Danville, Kentucky, on the 27th, and at Louisville on the 
20th of July. In August he ascended the Wabash to Vin- 
cennes, crossed the country to the Illinois River, and de- 
voted the months of September, October and November, to 
diligent herborizations along the course of that river, the 
Mississippi, the lower part of the Ohio, and throughout the 
country included by these rivers. In December, he de- 
scended the Mississippi in a small boat to the mouth of the 
* I believe this is the only instance in which the name of Flat Rock occurs 
in Michaux’s journal ; it is in South Carolina, not far from Camden. Here, 
without doubt, he discovered Sedum pusillum (Diamorpha, Nutt.) ; the 
habitat of which is said to be “in Carolina Septentrionali, loco dicto Flat 
Rock.” Mr. Nuttall, who sub tly collected the plant at the same 
locality, inadvertently continues KE WË by assigning the habitat, 
“ Flat Rock, near Camden, North Carolina," as well in his Genera of 
North American Plants, as in a letter to Dr. Short on this subject. (Vide, 
Short on Western Botany, in the Transylvania Journal of Medicine, and in 
Hooker’s Journal of Botany for Nov. 1840, p. 103). Hence some confu- 
sion has arisen respecting the locality of gäe interesting plant, since there 
is both a Flat Rock and a village named Camden in North Geier al- 
though the two are widely separated. Afterall, Pursh's habitat, “on flat 
rocks in North Carolina, and elsewhere," proves sufficiently correct ; since 
Mr. Nuttall himself, and also Mr. Curtis and others, have s ly 
obtained it in such situations, near Salisbury, in that State, and Dr. Leaven- 
worth found it abundantly throughout the upper district of Georgia. ` 
