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Thursday, returned to Asheville. Friday, packed a 

 fine box of roots, with which my wagon was loaded. 

 Sent for my black horse. Saturday, bad weather ; 

 but made a little excursion on horseback, got roots of 

 Arum quinatum, which, by the way, often has the lat- 

 eral leaflets not at all incised, and then (in fruit) looks 

 just like A. Virginicum. Buckley is often inquired 

 after here, and seems to have been quite a favorite. 

 He might have enlivened his journal had he informed 

 us therein that he visited both Black and Bald Moun- 

 tains with a merry company of ladies, and camped out 

 on the summit ! But the sly fellow kept all this to 

 himself. 



I begin to be in ajmrry ; but have yet much to do, 

 and find it rather lonely. Monday and Tuesday I in- 

 tend to devote to Hickory-Nut Gap, twenty-eight miles 

 and back. Then visit Black, if I meddle with this 

 mountain at all. Then, taking final leave of Asheville, 

 go into the mountains near the head of French Broad, 

 take up my quarters with a well-known hunter, try to 

 reach Pilot and other high mountains which Buckley 

 failed in reaching, and which have never been visited 

 by a botanist, unless by Rugel ; J thence to Table Rock, 

 South Carolina, and by a roundabout way to Franklin, 

 Macon County, Tolula Falls, and Clarksville, Georgia, 

 where I shall try to sell out my horses and wagon, 

 and take stage for Athens, where I am in the way to 

 come by steam all the way to Princeton, via Augusta 

 and Charleston, which bid fair to be healthy enough 

 to warrant my passing through them without rashness. 



It will be the 20th October ere I can hope to take 

 you by the hand. Truly welcome are the newspapers 



1 Dr. Rugel came to America, 1842 ; settled in eastern Tennessee 

 and collected in the southeastern States. 



