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14th of June, and was conducted by the Indians across the 

 mountains to the head of the Tugaloo (the other principal 

 branch of the Savannah), and thence to the waters of the 

 Tennessee. After suffering much inconvenience from unfa- 

 vorable weather and the want of food, he returned to the 

 Indian village of Seneca by way of Cane Creek, descended 

 along the Savannah to Augusta, and arrived at Charleston on 

 the 1st of July. His notes in this as well as in subsequent 

 journeys to the mountains often contain remarks upon the 

 more interesting plants he discovered ; and in some cases 

 their localities are so carefully specified that they might still 

 be sought with confidence. On the 16th of July he embarked 

 for Philadelphia, which he reached on the 27th; and, after 

 visiting Mr. Bartram, traveled to New York, arriving at the 

 garden he had established in New Jersey about the 1st of 

 August. Returning by water to Charleston the same month, 

 he remained in that vicinity until February, 1788, when he 

 embarked for St. Augustine, and was busily occupied, during 

 this spring, in exploring east Florida. His journal mentions 

 several sub-tropical plants, now well known to be indigenous 

 to Florida, but which are not noticed in his Flora : such as 

 the Mangrove Guilandina Bonduc, Sophora ocdderttalis, 

 two or three Ferns, and especially the Orange. 1 Leaving 

 Florida at the beginning of June, he returned by land to 

 Savannah and Charleston, where he was confined by sickness 

 the remainder of the summer. Late in the autumn, however, 

 he made a second excursion to the sources of the Savannah, 

 chiefly to obtain the roots and seeds of the remarkable plants 

 he had previously discovered. He pursued the same route as 

 before, except that he ascended the Tugaloo, instead of the 



were stolen, a misfortune which, it appears from Michaux's remarks, was 

 of no uncommon occurrence in those days ; and they were obliged to pur- 

 sue their journey to that place on foot. On the way he discovered "a 

 shrubby Rumex," which he terms Lapathum occidental ; doubtless the 

 Polygonella parvifolia of his Flora, and also the Polygonum polygamum of 

 Ventenat. 



1 "Les bois etoient remplis d'oranges aigres," etc. Michaux, MSS. 

 See also Bartram's " Travels " ; and Torrey & Gray, " Flora of North 

 America," i. p. 222. 



