120 Some Account of the late 



He employed much of his time in travelling through 

 the different provinces of North-America, at that 

 time subject to England. Neither dangers nor diffi- 

 culties impeded or confined his researches after ob- 

 jects in natural history. The summits of our highest 

 mountains were ascended and explored by him. The 

 lakes Ontario, Iriquois, and George ; the shores and 

 sources of the rivers Hudson, Delaware, Schuylkill, 

 Susquehanna, Allegeny, and St. Juan were visited by 

 him, at an early period, when it was truly a perilous 

 undertaking to travel in the territories, or even on 

 the frontiers, of the aborigines. 



He travelled several thousand miles in Carolina 

 and Florida. At the advanced age of near seventy 

 years, embarking on board of a vessel at Philadelphia, 

 he sat sail for Charleston, in South-Carolina. From 

 thence he proceeded, by land, through part of Caro- 

 lina and Georgia, to St. Augustine, in East-Florida. 

 When arrived at the last-mentioned place, being then 

 appointed botanist and naturalist for the King of Eng- 

 land, for exploring the provinces, he received his or- 

 ders to search for the sources of the great River St. 

 Juan. 



in the present number of the Journal, and many more will be 

 given in subsequent numbers. It is much to be regretted) that 

 many of the letters are so injured by the ravages of time, that 

 they cannot, in many places, be read at all ; or at least, only with 

 extreme difficulty. Parts of some of them are irrecoverably lost. 

 Editou. 



