4 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
sources of the Keowee River on the 14th of June, and was con- 
ducted by the Indians across the mountains to the head of the 
Tugaloo, (the other principal branch of the Savannah,) and 
thence to the waters of the Tennessee. After suffering much 
inconvenience from unfavorable weather and the want of food, 
he returned to the Indian village of Seneca by way of Cane 
Creek, descended along the Savannah to Augusta, and arrived at 
Charleston on the first of July. His notes, in this as well as 
subsequent journeys to the mountains, often contain remarks 
upon the more interesting plants he discovered; and in some 
cases their localities are so carefully specified, that they might 
still be sought with confidence. On the 16th of July he em- 
barked for Philadelphia, which he reached on the 27th; and, 
after visiting Mr. Bartram, travelled to New York, arriving at the 
garden he had established in New Jersey about the first of Au- 
gust. Returning by water to Charleston the same month, he 
remained in that vicinity until February, 1788, when he em- 
barked for St. Augustine, and was busily occupied, during this 
spring, in exploring East Florida. His journal mentions several 
sub-tropical plants, now well known to be indigenous to Florida, 
but which are not noticed in his Flora; ‘such as the Mangrove, 
fuilan Bonduc, Sophora onckdenctetia, two or three Ferns, 
and especially the orange.* Leaving Florida at the beginning 
of June, he returned by land to Savannah and Charleston, where 
he was confined by sickness the remainder of thea,summer. Late 
in the autumn, however, he made a second excursion to the 
sources of the Savannah, chiefly to obtain the roots and seeds of 
the remarkable plants he had previously discovered. He pursued 
the same route as before, except that he ascended the Tugaloo, 
instead of the Seneca or Keowee River, crossing over to the lat- 
ter; and, climbing the higher mountains about its sources in the 
inclement month of December, when they were mostly covered 
with snow, he at length found some trees of Magnolia cordata, 
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orvaais which, it appears from Michaux’s remarks, was of no unéommon — 
rence in those days; and they were obliged to to pursue their journey to that place 
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