50 The Life and Writings of 



known and have, so far as known, too great likeness to 

 warrant minute statement. He continued his numerous 

 excursions to the very last, and during these journeys 

 always explored new regions. These few years sufficed 

 to take him to nearly all the Middle Atlantic States and 

 furnished him with very many opportunities to study 

 the mountain flora of the northern Appalachians. Some 

 of his larger works were composed in great part during 

 these last years, and a number of them were published. 

 From the time he left Transylvania University he ex 

 perienced considerable difficulty in getting his numerous 

 papers published; very many of them never would have 

 seen the light in printed form, were it not that he es 

 sayed the establishment of one or two literary and scien 

 tific periodicals. These, like his earlier adventure of 

 similar nature in Sicily, came to sudden ends, through 

 failure of subscribers to pay, and through failure of 

 publishers to print without cash payment. Some liter 

 ary enterprises, extensive in nature, for which he was 

 not well equipped either in training or in means, were 

 projected, and some, like his &quot;Tellus,&quot; were to compass 

 the whole world in their scope. This last ambitious 

 project was partially consummated, and is represented 

 by two volumes, printed in Philadelphia, in 1836. The 

 widest possible range of subjects is included within his 



