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and forests, which I have been longing to revisit. Oh, 
that you could be with us! Two botanists will join 
us at Philadelphia, and perhaps a third. 
Among the very few copies of my “ Darwiniana” 
which I lac sent to England is one to the editor of 
the “ Spectator,” whose ideas fit in with mine well, as 
I judge from reading the paper regularly. Do you 
know him? He is a very broad churchman. 
Tam just beginning to print a portion of my new 
“Flora of North America.” There ean be no going 
to Europe for me till this volume or half volume is 
off my hands, 
Dr. Gray enjoyed greatly the journey through the 
North Carolina mountains, and the traveling and ac- 
commodations were almost as rough as in the journeys 
thirty-three and thirty-five years before. The people, 
still cut off from the lower lands by roads that were 
mostly only used for horses, and where one traveled 
Sometimes two or three days without meeting a 
wheeled vehicle, were very plain and primitive in 
their ways, and one had to depend at times on their 
hospitality for accommodations. But the scenery is 
striking and beautiful, and the forest unsurpassed for 
the Slagle of its grand trees, rich in variety and 
beauty. The party went first to New River Springs, 
then to the French Broad Hot Springs, and round 
by a rough journey to Asheville, then far away from 
railroads, where they were joined by Dr. and Mrs. 
Engelmann, and continued through the mountains to 
Cesar’s Head, whence they made their way by rail- 
road through South Carolina and Georgia to Jones- 
boro; from Jonesboro going up Roan Mountain, a 
camping-out excursion. 
