280 Caleb Atwater on the Winds of the West. 
and other vegetable matter in summer, and the cockle burr, and 
the balls of button-wood, or, as bya perversion of language, il 
emiet in this country sycamore.* But this bird may find its 
ses snd trees alluded to, flourish as I have siecrect in forty- 
five degrees of north latitude, and 1 am credibly informed that 
they are abundant as far north as Quebec, and even around 
Hudson’s Bay. Wherever waters rup and trees grow on their 
banks, (if low and wet,) on the American continent, even as 
high as eighty degrees of north latitude, there the paroquet may 
find its food in abundance. 
Another fact tending to establish the same point is, that the 
reed cane, before this country was much settled, grew in @ 
higher latitude by several degrees on this than it did on the 
other side of the Alleghany mountains. It has indeed been 
ae that this cane was never found north of the Ohio, nor 
above the mouth of the Big Sandy River, which empties inte 
the Ohio, on the line which separates Virginia and Kentucky. 
This however is incorrect ; for within a few years it was grow- 
ing in abundance at Miller’s Bottom, twenty six miles it 
the mouth of Big Sandy. It grew at Lancaster, 0? the H 
hocking northward of the mouth of the Big Sandy, in a aif: 
line, at least one hundred and fifty miles, and it now grows 0 
the Whetstone branch of the Scioto, more than two degrees ° 
latitude above the lowest bend of the Ohio, which is at the 
mouth of the Big Sandy. Before the white peoP ; 
there, I have every reason to believe, that the cane grew IP 
great plenty at Delaware, where there are more si 2 
faloes than at any other place within my knowledge. 
been conjectured, that the seed of the cane was brow, ught do 
and scattered by the Big Sandy; but granting this, in what Way 
could that stream carry this seed up the Hockhocking and 
Scioto to their sources; to places several hundred feet abor? 
the highest freshets ever known in this country? With a know 
ledge of these facts, cast your eye at the map of Ohio.  Proo™ 
x, . : ° ‘on- 
Genus, platanus—species, occidentalis, popular name, sycamore, OF butt 
ood. 
