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He next visited Philadelphia, where he had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with some of her 
most celebrated men, among whom he mentions the Rey. Dr. Collin, Dr. Benj. S. Barton, Messrs. 
Vaughan, Peale, Wm. Bartram, &e. He visited with great satisfaction, the botanical garden of the 
latter gentleman, and the magnificent green houses of Mr. Wm. Hamilton, which contained a rich col- 
lection of exotics, principally New Holland plants. His attention was more particularly attracted by 
the latter gentleman’s romantic grounds, called Woodland, wholly planted with every American tree 
and shrub that could withstand the severity of a Philadelphia winter. Then, finding he had a few 
months to dispose of, he took advantage of this circumstance to visit the states of Kentucky and Ten- 
nessee, about which he had so frequently heard his father speak in the most enthusiastic terms. 
Accordingly, he set out from Philadelphia, on the 27th of June, 1802; passed through Lancaster, - 
Columbia, York, Carlisle and Shippensburgh; then crossing the Allegheny mountains, he reached Pitts- 
burgh in ten days, travelling alternately in stage, on horse-back or on foot. He left Pittsburgh on 
the 14th of July, on foot, for Wheeling, and there purchased a canoe to descend the Ohio river, in com- 
pany with an American officer of the name of Craff. In three days, they reached Marietta, and, on 
the tenth day, they landed at Limestone, now Maysville. From that place, he travelled alone to Lex- 
ington, which he left on the 10th of August for Nashville. 
Michaux remained in Nashville four weeks, which were employed, principally, in herborizations 
around the town and along the banks of the Cumberland river. On the fifth of September, he set out 
on his journey back to Charleston, by way of Fort Blunt, West Point and Knoxville, which latter 
place he reached on the 17th, after stopping several days at the Falls of Roaring River, to explore the 
beautiful country around. From Knoxville he travelled to Greenville, and thence to Jonesborough, 
the last town of Tennessee. On the 21st he began crossing the high ridge which divides the State of 
Tennessee from North Carolina, and after two days of the most toilsome journey through the mountains, 
he reached the farm of old Davenport, who had been formerly his father’s guide in that rugged re- 
gion.—There he remained a week, for the double purpose of resting and conversing with him about his 
~ dear father, who, shortly after, on the inhospitable coast of Madagascar, died a victim to the climate 
and to his zeal for the progress of science. On the second of October, Michaux reached Morgantown, 
two hundred and eighty miles from Charleston, and arrived in the latter city, on the 18th, by way 
of Lincolntown, Chester, Winnsborough and Columbus, after having travelled over eighteen hundred 
miles in three months and a half. 
Such was Francois André Michaux’s exploring journey to the Western states, of which he published 
a very detailed account, two years afterwards, in a work entitled “ Voyage @ 0 Ouest des Monts Alle- 
gheny, §c. fe.” During this journey, he did not merely devote his attention to botanical pursuits; but, 
with his usual habits of observation and extraordinary sagacity of mind, he diligently inquired into the 
state and modes of agriculture; the nature of the different soils; their particular vegetable productions, 
and the commercial relations existing between those remote regions and the Atlantic cities. He al- 
ways felt, afterwards, a considerable pleasure in relating the episodes of this long and toilsome journey 
through these regions, then but thinly settled, and yet the abode of the roving Indian tribes. 
He spoke with enthusiasm and in terms of unreserved gratitude, of attentions of which he was the 
object; his name was a passport which insured to him a most hearty welcome, and every assistance 
from those who had known his father, and had received from him seeds for planting, or instructions in 
farming. ‘To the new settlers, he was always provided with letters of introduction, which procured 
him the same good reception. Every where he was hailed with manifestations of respect for the me- 
mory of his father, and with unanimous expressions of a desire to be useful to the son in any way with- 
in their power. ; 
Michaux remained in Charleston until the first of March, 1803, when he embarked again for France, 
