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and forests, which I have been longing to revisit. Oh, 

 that you could be with us ! Two botanists will join 

 us at Philadelphia, and perhaps a third. 



Among the very few copies of my " Darwiniana " 

 which I have sent to England is one to the editor of 

 the " Spectator," whose ideas fit in with mine well, as 

 I judge from reading the paper regularly. Do you 

 know him ? He is a very broad churchman. 



I am just beginning to print a portion of my new 

 " Flora of North America." There can be no going 

 to Europe for me till this volume or half volume is 

 off my hands. 



Dr. Gray enjoyed greatly the journey through the 

 North Carolina mountains, and the traveling and ac- 

 commodations were almost as rough as in the journeys 

 thirty-three and thirty-five years before. The people, 

 still cut off from the lower lands by roads that were 

 mostly only used for horses, and where one traveled 

 sometimes two or three days without meeting a 

 wheeled vehicle, were very plain and primitive in 

 their ways, and one had to depend at times on their 

 hospitality for accommodations. But the scenery is 

 striking and beautiful, and the forest unsurpassed for 

 the magnificence of its grand trees, rich in variety and 

 beauty. The party went first to New River Springs, 

 then to the French Broad Hot Springs, and round 

 by a rough journey to Asheville, then far away from 

 railroads, where they were joined by Dr. and Mrs. 

 Engelmann, and continued through the mountains to 

 Cesar's Head, whence they made their way by rail- 

 road through South Carolina and Georgia to Jones- 

 boro ; from Jonesboro going up Roan Mountain, a 

 camping-out excursion. 



