6 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
he returned to Charleston by way of Baltimore, Alexandria, Rich- 
mond, and Wilmington, North Carolina. In November, he re- 
visited the mountains explored early in the preceding summer, 
passing through Charlotte, Lincolnton, and Morganton, to his 
former head-quarters at Turkey Cove; from whence he visited 
the north branch of Catawba, [North Cove, between Linville 
Mountain and the Blue Ridge ?] the a Mountain, Toe River, 
&c.; and returned to Charleston in December, with two thou- 
send five hundred young trees, Prati ail peter: 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 27th, 1792, when he sold 
the ‘Jardin du Rov’ at Charleston, and going shortly afterwards 
by water to Philadelphia, 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 froma Mr. 
Peter Pound, who had travelled 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, &c. ;) on the. 18th, he was at. arat fe 
the 20th, he embarked at SI b (Whi 
more or less on both shores of Lake Champlain, reaching. Mon- Mon- 
treal on the 30th of June, and Quebec on the 16th of July.* 
The remainder of this season was devoted to an examination of 
the region between Quebec and Hudson’s Bay; the botany of 
which, as is well known, he was the first to investigate. His 
journal comprises a full aud very interesting account of the phys 
ical geography and vegetation of that inclement district. 
Leaving Quebec in October, and returning by the same route, 
we find our persevering traveller at Philadelphia early in Decem- 
ber. It appears that he now meditated a most formidable jour- 
ney, and made the following proposition to the American Phi- 
losophical Society :—“‘ Proposé a plusieurs membres de la So- 
ciété Philosophique les avantages pour les Etats-Unis d’avoir 
* Pen we a piaiti collected in this jotirsseityk e partictlarly mentions having 
found 4 locality i 
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