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settlement du mauvais Rum." Abingdon, the county seat of 

 Washington County, is now a flourishing town ; but Mi- 

 chaux's remarks are still applicable to more than one pre- 

 miere ville in this region. From this place he continued his 

 course along the valley of Virginia throughout its whole ex- 

 tent, crossing New River, the Roanoke, and passing by Nat- 

 ural Bridge, Lexington, Staunton, and Winchester ; thence by 

 way of Frederick in Maryland, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 

 he arrived at Philadelphia on the 21st of July, and at New 

 York on the 30th. In August and September he returned to 

 Charleston by way of Baltimore, Alexandria, Richmond, and 

 Wilmington, North Carolina. In November he revisited the 

 mountains explored early in the preceding summer, passing 

 through Charlotte, Lincolnton, and Morganton, to his former 

 headquarters at Turkey Cove ; from whence he visited the 

 north branch of Catawba (North Cove, between Lin ville 

 Mountain and the Blue Ridge ?), the Black Mountain, Toe 

 River, etc. ; and returned to Charleston in December, with 

 two thousand five hundred young trees, shrubs, and other 

 plants. From January until April, 1791, this indefatigable 

 botanist remained in the vicinity of Charleston ; but his 

 memoranda for the remainder of that year are unfortunately 

 wanting. The earliest succeeding date I have been able to 

 find is March 22, 1792, when he sold the " Jardin du Roi " at 

 Charleston, and going shortly afterwards by water to Phila- 

 delphia, he botanized in New Jersey and around New York 

 until the close of May. In the beginning of June he visited 

 Milford, Connecticut, to procure information from a Mr. 

 Peter Pound, who had traveled far in the northwest; and 

 at New Haven took passage in a sloop for Albany, where he 

 arrived on the 14th of June (having botanized on the way 

 at West Point, Poughkeepsie, etc.) ; on the 18th he was 

 at Saratoga ; on the 20th he embarked at Skenesborough 

 (Whitehall), botanized more or less on the shores of Lake 

 Champlain, reaching Montreal on the 30th of June, and Que- 

 bec on the 16th of July. 1 The remainder of this season was 



1 Among the plants collected in this journey, he particularly mentions 

 having found Aconitum uncinatum near Quebec ; but in the Flora no 



