54 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



time subject to England. Neither dangers nor difficulties 

 impeded or confined his researches after objects in natural 

 history. The summits of our highest mountains were 

 ascended and explored by him. The lakes, Ontario, Iroquois 

 and George ; the shores and sources of the rivers Hudson, 

 Delaware, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, Alleghany and San 

 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 frontier. The results of this extended journey 

 are recorded in ' Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, 

 Soil, Rivers, Productions (Animals and other matters 

 worthy of notice) made by Mr. John Bartram in his travels 

 from Pennsylvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake 

 Ontario.' Printed by J. Whiston and B. White, Fleet 

 Street, 1751. 



" He traveled several thousand miles in Carolina and 

 Florida. At the advanced age of near seventy years, 

 embarking on board of a vessel at Philadelphia, he set sail 

 for Charleston, in South Carolina. From thence he pro- 

 ceeded by land through part of Carolina and Georgia to 

 St. Agustine, in East Florida. When arrived at the last- 

 mentioned place — being then appointed botanist and 

 naturalist for the King of England, for exploring the 

 provinces — he received his orders to search for the sources 

 of the great river St. John's. 



" Leaving St. Augustine, he traveled by land to the 

 banks of the river, and embarking in a boat at Picolata, 

 ascended that great and beautiful river (400 miles) to its 

 sources, attending carefully to its various branches and the 

 lakes connected with it. Having ascended on one side of 



