10 BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO 
Ohio, and ascended the latter and the Cumberland to Clarks- 
ville, which he reached on the 16th of January, 1796, after 
a perilous voyage in most inclement weather. Leaving 
that place on the 16th, he arrived at Nashville on the 19th 
of January, and after making a journey to Louisville and 
back again, he started for Carolina at the close of February, 
crossed the Cumberland mountains early in March, reached 
Knoxville on the 8th, Greenville on the 18th, Jonesborough 
on the 19th, and on the 22nd crossed the Iron Mountains 
into North Carolina, descended Cane Creek (which rises in 
the Roan), and spent several days in exploring the mountains 
in the vicinity, with his former guide, Davenport. In April 
he returned to Charleston by his usual route; and on the 
13th of August embarked for Amsterdam in the ship Ophir. 
This vessel was wrecked on the coast of Holland, on the 
10th of October, and Michaux lost a part of the collection 
he had with him; on the 23rd of December, 1796, he ar- 
rived at Paris with the portion he had saved. This notice of — 
the travels of Michaux on this continent, will suffice to show 
with what untiring zeal and assiduity his laborious researches 
were prosecuted; it should however be remarked, that 
greater facilities were afforded him, in some important re- 
spects, than any subsequent botanist has enjoyed; the ex- 
pences of his journey having been entirely defrayed by the 
French government, under whose auspices and direction 
they were undertaken, 
The name of Fraser, so familiar in the annals of North 
American Botany, ought, perhaps, to have preceded that of 
Michaux, in our brief sketch; since the elder Mr. Fraser, - 
who had visited Newfoundland previous to the year 1784, 
commenced his researches in the Southern States as early as 
1785 ; and Michaux, on his first. expedition to the mountains 
in 1787, speaks of having travelled in his company for a 
several days. We believe, however, that he did not explore |. 
the Alleghany Mountains until 1789. Under the patronage - 
of the Russian Government, he returned to this country in | 
1799, accompanied by his eldest son, and revisited the ! 
