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des informations geographiques des pays a l’ouest de Mississippi, 
et demandé qu’ils aient a endosser mes traites pour la somme 
£3600, si je suis disposé a voyager aux sources du Missouri, et 
méme rechercher les rivieres qui coulent vers Vocean Pacifique. 
Ma proposition ayant été accepté, j’ai donné a Mr. Jefferson, Sec- 
retaire d’Etat, les conditions auxquels je suis disposé 4 entrepren- 
dre ce voyage..... Joffre de communiquer toutes les connoi- 
sances et informations geographiques a la Société Philosophique; 
et je reserve a mon profit toutes les connoisances en histoire nat- 
urelle que j’acquirerai dans ce voyage.” Remaining at Philadel- 
phia and its vicinity until the following summer, he set out for 
Kentucky in July, 1793, with the object of exploring the Western 
States, (which no botanist had yet visited,) and also of conferring 
with Gen. Clarke, (at Mr. Jefferson’s request,) on the subject of 
his contemplated journey to the Rocky Mountains, &c. He 
crossed the Alleghanies in Pennsylvania, descended the Ohio to 
Louisville, Kentucky, traversed that State and Western Virginia 
to Abingdon, and again travelled through the Valley of Virginia 
to Winchester, Harper’s Ferry, &c., arriving at Philadelphia on 
the 12th of December of the same year. Conferences respecting 
his projected expedition were now renewed, in which Mr. Genet, 
the envoy from the French republic, took a prominent part; but 
here the matter seems to have dropped, since no further refer- 
ence. to: mate to the subject in the journal; and Michaux left 
in February, 1794, on another tour to the Southern 
States. ae July of that year, he again visited the mountains of 
North Carolina, travelling from Charleston to Turkey Cove by 
his usual route. On this occasion he ascended the Linville 
Mountain, and the other mountains in the neighborhood; but 
having ‘‘differé a cause du manque des provisions,” he left his 
old quarters, (at Ainsworth’s,) crossed the Blue Ridge, and estab- 
lished himself at Crab Orchard on Toe River. From this place 
he revisited the Black Mountain, and, accompanied by his new 
guide, Satie explored the Yellow Mountain, the Roan, and 
finally the Grandfather, the summit of which he attained on 
the 30th of August.* Returning to the house of his guide, he 
af + His earlier journals are full of expressions of loyalty to the king under whose 
patronage is travels were undertaken ; but now transformed into a republican: 
frags au sommet de la plus haute montagne de toute 
avec mon compagnon-guide Uhymne de Marseillois, et crit, Vive la Liberté et 
