430 JOHN BAR TRAM [1763. 



now there are very few plants in all that space of ground but what 

 I have observed, nay, have most of them growing in my own 

 garden. 



I am just returned home from a very successful journey over 

 the Congaree, near Georgia, and then up, across the country, to 

 the Moravian Settlements, up to the head of the Yadkin, and over 

 the South and Alleghany Mountains, to the New River, a great 

 branch of the Ohio, on which I travelled four days, and toward 

 Holston's River. In this journey I found many rare plants and 

 shrubs, and gathered much seed, part of which I send to thee. 

 It is very good and ripe ; and when I was upon the Wateree, I 

 dug up many curious roots, of sorts which I could not gather seed 

 from. These I planted in a box, to be sent one hundred and 

 twenty miles to Charleston, to be sent to Philadelphia, which I 

 have not vet received. 



I was, several years ago, at Charleston and Cape Fear, and 

 settled such correspondence there, that I have most of their Ever- 

 greens and Plants growing in my garden ; and hope to have all 

 that our climate will bear. 



JOHN BARTRAM TO DR. SOLANDER.* 



April 26th, 1763. 

 I received thy kind and agreeable letter of February the 10th. 



* Daniel Charles Solander, LL.D., F.R.S., under librarian of the British 

 Museum, was born in Nordland, Sweden, Feb. 28th, 1736 ; studied at Upsal, 

 where he became a favourite pupil of Linn.eus, and received the degree of M.D. 

 He came to England in 1759, being consigned by his great preceptor, with pecu- 

 liar earnestness, to the care of Mr. Ellis. He was universally esteemed here 

 for his polite and agreeable manners, as well as his great knowledge in most 

 departments of Natural History. Being engaged by the illustrious Banks, to 

 accompany him in his voyage round the world, with Captain Cook, he was ever 

 after the companion and friend of that distinguished patron of science, and was 

 domesticated under his roof, as his secretary and librarian. 



His life was suddenly terminated by apoplexy, on the 16th of -May, 1782, at 

 the age of 46. The dissipation of London society seems to have induced in him 

 pernicious habits of indolence, and to have developed unfilial traits of character, 

 rarely witnessed in a votary of " the amiable science." The evidences of this arc 

 furnished by the neglect of his epistolary correspondence with his great master, 

 Linnaeus; and still more strongly in the neglect experienced by his aged and 

 doating mother; several of whose letters to her son, it is said, were foui!<! 

 unopened after his death ! See Smith's Linncean Correspondence. 



