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*} visited Maryland twice; the saci time I explored the Cotocton Moun- 
tains of as and the Alleghany Mountains as far as Sherman Val- 
ley and t thesJuniata, quite at leisure, residing sometimes at the top of the 
ins. In the year 1833 I proposed to visit the Apalachian -Moun- 
fains as far as Alabama, but was prevented by an accident and heavy 
rains, I only went as fat as those of Virginia, and again in the Cotoc- 
ton Mountains. In a second journey I undertook to visit the sources of 
the Delaware and Susquehannah. The year 1834 saw me twice in 
the Alleghany Mountains of the North, once by following the course of 
the oe the second time westward by the Welsh Mountains, Cone- 
wago Mountains, Albany Mountains, Locust Mountains, to the Pottsville 
mines and sources of the Schuylkill River, returning by Mauchchunk 
and Allentown. My travels of 1835 were in the central Alleghanies, up 
the rivers Joniata and Susquehannah, exploring the mountains of Peters, 
Buffalo, Wisconisco, Mahantango, Tuscarora, Jack, Seven-mountains, 
&c., with their valleys. Since then [ have ee explored South 
New Jersey and the pine barrens,” 
He draws a lively picture of the 1 Ra as well as the 
enjoyments of a travelling naturalist. 
“During so many years of active and arduous explorations, I have met 
of course all kinds of adventures, fares and treatment, I have been wel- 
comed under the hospitable roof of friends of knowledge and es 
else laughed at as a mad botanist by scornful ignorance.—— 
of travels and exertions has its pleasures and its pains, its sudden ‘light 
and deep joys mixed with dangers, trials, difficulties and troubles. No 
one could better paint them than myself, who has experienced them all. 
Let the practical botanist, who wishes like myself to be a pioneer of 
ence, and to increase the Liowledge of plants, be fully prepared tol 
dangers of all sorts in the wild groves and mountains of America. 
Mere fatigue of a pedestrian journey is nothing compared to the gloom of 
solitary forests, when. not a human being is met for many miles, and if 
met he may be mistrusted; when the food and collections must be car- 
Tied in your pocket or anpeack from day to day; when the fare is not 
scanty but sometimes worse ; when you must live on corn bread and 
t pork, be burned and steamed by a hot sun at noon, or drenched by 
rain, even with an umbrella in hand, as I always had. sc and 
flies will often annoy you or suck your blood if you stop 
tied step. Gnats dance before the eyes, and often fall in 
mM; insects creep on you and into your ears. Ants crawl on you 
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whenever you rest on the ground; wasps will assail you like furies if you 
touch their nests. But ticks, the worst of all, are unavoidable whenever 
you go among bushes, and stick to you in ¢rowds, filling your skin with 
pimples and sores. Spiders, gallineps, horse-flies, and other obnoxious 
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