BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO NORTH CAROLINA. 27 
seulement du mauvais Rum.” Abingdon, the county seat of 
Washington County, is now a flourishing town; but Mi- 
chaux’s remarks are still applicable to more than one pre- 
miere ville in this region. From this place he continued his 
course along the valley of Virginia throughout its whole ex- 
tent, crossing New River, the Roanoke, and passing by Nat- 
ural Bridge, Lexington, Staunton, and Winchester ; thence by 
way of Frederick in Maryland, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 
he arrived at Philadelphia on the 21st of July, and at New 
York on the 30th. In August and September he returned to 
Charleston by way of Baltimore, Alexandria, Richmond, and 
Wilmington, North Carolina. In November he revisited the 
mountains explored early in the preceding summer, passing 
through Charlotte, Lincolnton, and Morganton, to his former 
headquarters at Turkey Cove; from whence he visited the 
north branch of Catawba (North Cove, between Linville 
Mountain and the Blue Ridge ?), the Black Mountain, Toe 
River, etc.; and returned to Charleston in December, with 
two thousand five hundred young trees, shrubs, and other 
plants. From January until April, 1791, this indefatigable 
botanist remained in the vicinity of Charleston; but his 
memoranda for the remainder of that year are unfortunately 
wanting. The earliest succeeding date I have been able to 
find is March 22, 1792, when he sold the “ Jardin du Roi” at 
Charleston, and going shortly afterwards by water to Phila- 
delphia, he botanized in New Jersey and around New York 
until the close of May. In the beginning of June he visited 
Milford, Connecticut, to procure information from a Mr. 
Peter Pound, who had traveled far in the northwest; and 
at New Haven took passage in a sloop for Albany, where he 
arrived on the 14th of June (having botanized on the way 
at West Point, Poughkeepsie, ete.); on the 18th he was 
at Saratoga; on the 20th he embarked at Skenesborough 
(Whitehall), botanized more or less on the shores of Lake 
Champlain, reaching Montreal on the 30th of June, and Que- 
bec on the 16th of July.1_ The remainder of this season was 
1 Among the plants collected in this journey, he particularly mentions 
having found Aconitum uncinatum near Quebec ; but in the Flora no 
