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crosses the Valley of Virginia. At any rate, it is certain that the 
original tickets of his specimens in the herbarium of the late Prof. 
Barton, under whose patronage he travelled, as well as those in 
Mr. Lambert’s herbarium, furnish no evidence that he extended 
his researches into the mountainous portion of North Carolina; 
but it appears probable (from some labels marked Halifax or 
Mecklenburg, Virginia,) that he followed the course of the Roa- 
noke into the former State. His most interesting collections were 
made at Harper’s Ferry, Natural Bridge, the Peaked Memniatae, 
{which separate the two principal branches of the S 
the Peaks of Otter, in the Blue Ridge; also, Cove Mountain, 
Salt-Pond Mountain, and Parnell’s Pons (with the situation of 
which I am unacquainted,) the region around the Warm Sul- 
phur Springs, Capon Springs, the Sweet Springs, and the 
mountains of Monroe and Greenbrier Counties. 
Karly in the present century, Mr. Kin, a German nurseryman 
and collector, resident at Philadelphia, travelled somewhat ex- 
tensively among the Alleghany Mountains, chiefly for the pur- 
pose of obtaining living plants and seeds. He also collected 
many interesting specimens, which may be found in the herbaria 
of Muhlenberg and Willdenow, where his tickets may be reeog- 
nized by the orthography, and the amusing mixture of bad Eng- 
lish and. German, (with: occasionally some very wipanins Latin,) 
jn which an 
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pas eS ee gael Suge apis 
In. the winter wt. 1816, Me. Norratt crossed. shen 
Lees wii. French Broad 
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(along the banks of which he obtained his Philadelphus hirsutus, 
&e.) to Asheville, passing the Blue Ridge, and exploring the 
Table Mountain, where he discovered Hudsonia montana, &c., 
- and collected many other rare and interesting plants.* 
_ As early as 1817, the mountains at the sources of the Saluda 
River were visited by. the late Dr. Macprine, the friend and cor- 
respondent of Elliott ; who, in the preface to the second volume 
of his Bieeieh, cinodlinc an, ec oe and.n most deserved tribute to 
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rei spur Blue R Sable ieutein rises 
like a tower, is i hill by Me. ‘Nuttall, the Calnehe Ridge. 1 am informed, how- 
ever, by my friend Mr. Curtis, who is intimately acquiinted with this interesting 
le Mountain | 
region, that itis not known by that name, bat i is Pert the Tabi 
he, bo 
the Linville ay bad 
