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the vegetable or mineral kingdom! With what pleasure did 
I bear the sun’s scorching beams, the fatigue of travelling, the 
cold ground for my pillow, and the uncomfortable dreariness 
thing but a blank, a doleful blank to ne, and I may say to 
every one of the company; for we were happily collected, 
and unanimity reigned amongst us. What will you think 
when I tell you that one of our company was a very accurate. 
drawer, and he had promised me to do every thing for me, 
and according to my direction, that I should desire ; so that, 
in this one circumstance, my loss was irreparable. But why 
do I dwell on the most disagreeable of all the incidents that 
ever Providence mingled in my lot ?” : 
Kalm, the celebrated pupil of Linnzus, who was also Pro- 
fessor of Natural History at Abo, in Finland, visited America 
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Until the year 1803, however, nothing had been published 
containing a thoroughly scientific arrangement of any extensive 
portion of the northern part of the New World. The pro- 
viding of materials for such a.work was reserved for Andre 
Michaux, a Frenchman, every way qualified for the task, and 
‘who, after returning from a most successful botanizing expe- 
dition to Persia, and bringing with him, amongst other trea- 
sures, the curious Rosa. simplicifolia and Michauxia compa- 
nulata, was appointed to visit North America at the charges 
of the French government, with a view to enrich France with 
its various vegetable productions, particularly its forest trees ; 
for which, it must be confessed, that the climate of that coun- 
try is even better qualified than that of England. ; 
New-York Michaux constituted the depot for the collections 
which he made through New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ma- 
rytand; and he there established a garden, from whence he 
despatehed numerous packages to France. Another depot 
