BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO NORTH CAROLINA. 29 



ter seems to have dropped, since no further reference is made 

 to the subject in the journal ; and Michaux left Philadelphia 

 in February, 1794, on another tour to the southern States. 

 In July of that year he again visited the mountains of North 

 Carolina, traveling from Charleston to Turkey Cove by his 

 old route. On this occasion he ascended the Linville Moun- 

 tain, and the other mountains in the neighborhood ; but hav- 

 ing " differe a cause du manque des provisions," he left his 

 old quarters (at Ainsworth's), crossed the Blue Ridge, and es- 

 tablished himself at Crab Orchard on Doe River. From this 

 place he revisited the Black Mountain, and, accompanied by 

 his new guide, Davenport, explored the Yellow Mountain, the 

 Roan, and finally the Grandfather, the summit of which he 

 attained on the 30th of August. 1 Returning to the house of 

 his guide, he visited Table Mountain on the 5th of Septem- 

 ber, and proceeded (by way of Morganton, Lincolnton, Salis- 

 bury, and Fayetteville, North Carolina) to Charleston, where 

 he passed the winter. 



On the nineteenth day of April, 1795, our indefatigable 

 traveler again set out, reached the Santee River at Nelson's 

 Ferry, ascended the Wateree, or Catawba, to Flat Rock Creek, 

 visited Flat Rock, 2 crossed Hanging-Rock Creek, and ascended 



1 His earlier journals are full of expressions of loyalty to the king un- 

 der whose patronage his travels were undertaken ; but now transformed 

 into a republican : " Monte* au sommet de la plus haute montagne de 

 toute PAmerique Septentrionale, chante' avec mon compagnon-gnide 

 l'hymne de Marseillois, et crie", ' Vive la Liberte" et la Republique Fran- 

 caise.' " If this enthusiasm were called forth by mere elevation, he should 

 have chanted his pa3ans on the Black Mountain and the Roan, both of 

 which are higher than the Grandfather. 



2 I believe this is the only instance in which the name of Flat Rock 

 occurs in Michaux's journal ; it is in South Carolina, not far from Cam- 

 den. Here, without doubt, he discovered Sedum pusillum (Diamorpha, 

 Nutt.), the habitat of which is said to be " in Carolina Septentrionali, loco 

 dicto Flat Rock." Mr. Nuttall, who subsequently collected the plant at 

 the same locality, inadvertently continued this mistake, by assigning the 

 habitat, " Flat Rock near Camden, North Carolina," as well in his " Gen- 

 era of North American Plants," as in a letter to Dr. Short on this subject. 

 (Vide Short on Western Botany, in the " Transylvania Journal of Medi- 

 cine," and in Hooker's " Journal of Botany " for November, 1840, p. 103.) 



