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7 one side of the village, the news: 
n, as ge on the other side, and the Bluff, a 
few miles distant in a westerly direction. 'The altitude of the 
former is probably between four and five thousand feet above the 
sea; the latter is apparently somewhat higher. They are all 
composed of mica-slate ; and we should remark, that we entered 
na primitive region immediately upon leaving the Valley of 
Virginia. The mountain-sides, though steep or precipitous, are 
covered with a rich and deep vegetable mould, and are heavily 
timbered, chiefly with chestnut, white oak, the tulip-tree, the cu- 
cumber-tree, and sometimes the sugar-maple. Their vegetation 
presents so little diversity, that it is for the most part unnecessary 
to distinguish particular localities. Besides many of the plants 
ready mentioned, and a very considerable number of northern ~ 
“species which we have not room to enumerate, we collected or 
~ observed on the mountain-sides, Clematis Viorna in great abun- 
dance; T'radescantia Virginica ; Iris cristata in fruit; Hedyotis 
(Amphiotis) purpurea, which scarcely deserves the name, since 
the flowers are commonly almost white; Phlox paniculata ? 
Aristolochia Sipho, without flowers or fruit; Ribes Cynosbatt, 
porn baget Michz., (R. triflorum, Willd.) and prostratum, 
IT’ Her, ; Allium cernuum, and tricoccum ;* Galax aphylla ; Li- 
gittitcom acteifolium, the atrcnig-weenedd roots of which are ea-_ 
gerly sought and eaten by boys and hogs ;t the Ginseng, here 
called sang, (the roots of which are largely collected, and sold 
to the country merchants, when fresh for about twelve cents per 
pound, or when dried for ae that price ;) Menziesia globula- 
ris, mostly in fruit; and the showy Azalea calendulacea, which 
was also out of flower, except in deep shade.{ In the latter sit- 
' * The latter is known throughout this region by the name of Ramps ; doubtless 
i a = Se i of Ramsons, the popular he poe of A, ursinum in Englan 
t It is here termed Angelice; while in Virginia it is called onde. Baie, 
+) (Travels, p. 45, and p, 367,) who pea it in Georgia, notices it under the name of 
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Angelica lnvida, or White-root of the Creek and Cherokee traders: “ Its aromatic 
white Fe taldtbaenta; and sells at a great price to the southern Indians of Florida, 
ae Noes near the sca-coast, where this never grows spontaneously.” Bar- 
“I sect well describes this nesahey under the name of Azalea jutmsiis or 
Azalea. “ The epithet fiery I annex to this most celebrated species of Aza- 
lea, as being expressive of the ss piareice of its flowers; which are in general of 
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