BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO NORTH CAROLINA. 29 
ter 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 July of that year he again visited the mountains of North 
Carolina, traveling from Charleston to Turkey Cove by his 
old route. On this occasion he ascended the Linville Moun- 
tain, and the other mountains in the neighborhood ; but havy- 
ing “ differé a cause du manque des provisions,” he left his 
old quarters (at Ainsworth’s), crossed the Blue Ridge, and es- 
tablished himself at Crab Orchard on Doe 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 
attained on the 380th of August.! Returning to the house of 
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 nineteenth day of April, 1795, our indefatigable 
traveler 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 
1 His earlier journals are full of expressions of loyalty to the king un- 
der whose patronage his travels were undertaken ; but now transformed 
into a republican: “Monté au sommet de la plus haute montagne de 
toute l’Amerique Septentrionale, chanté avec mon compagnon-guide 
Vhymne de Marseillois, et crié, ‘ Vive la Liberté et la Republique Fran- 
caise.’” If this enthusiasm were called forth by mere elevation, he should 
have chanted his pewans on the Black Mountain and the Roan, both of 
which are higher than the Grandfather. : 
2 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 Cam- 
den. 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 subsequently collected the plant at 
the same locality, inadvertently continued this mistake, by assigning the 
habitat, “ Flat Rock near Camden, North Carolina,” as well in his “ Gen- 
era of North American Plants,” as in a letter to Dr. Short on this subject. 
(Vide Short on Western Botany, in the “Transylvania Journal of Medi- 
cine,’ and in Hooker’s “ Journal of Botany ” for November, 1840, p. 103.) 
