6 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 



he returned to Charleston by way of Baltimore, Alexandria, Rich- 

 mond, and Wilmington, North Carolina. In November, he re- 

 visited the mountains explored early in the preceding summer, 

 passing through Charlotte, Lincolnton, and Morganton, to his 

 former head-quarters at l^urkey Cove ; from whence he visited 

 the north branch of Catawba, [North Cove, between Linville 

 Mountain and the Blue Ridge ?] the Black Mountain, Toe River, 

 (fcc. ; and returned to Charleston in December, with two thou- 

 sand five hundred young trees, shrubs, and other plants. From 

 January until April, 1791, this indefatigable botanist remained in 

 the vicinity of Charleston ; but his memoranda for the remainder 

 of that year are unfortunately wanting. The earliest succeeding 

 date I have been able to find, is March 27th, 1792, when he sold 

 the ^ Jardin du RoV at Charleston, and going shortly afterwards 

 by water to Philadelphia, he botanized in New Jersey and around 

 New York until the close of May. In the beginning of June, he 

 visited Milford, Connecticut, to procure information from a Mr. 

 Peter Pound, who had travelled far in the northwest; and at 

 New Haven took passage in a sloop for Albany, where he arrived 

 on the 14th of June, (having botanized on the way at West 

 Point, Poughkeepsie, &c. ;) on the 18th, he was at Saratoga ; on 

 the 20th, he embarked at Skenesborough, (Whitehall,) botanized 

 more or less on both shores of Lake Champlain, reaching Mon- 

 treal on the 30th of June, and Quebec on the 16th of July.* 

 The remainder of this season was devoted to an examination of 

 the region between Quebec and Hudson's Bay ; the botany of 

 which, as is well known, he was the first to investigate. His 

 journal comprises a full and very interesting account of the phys- 

 ical geography and vegetation of that inclement district. 



Leaving Quebec in October, and returning by the same route, 

 we find our persevering traveller at Philadelphia early in Decem- 

 ber. It appears that he now meditated a most formidable jour- 

 ney, and made the following proposition to the American Phi- 

 losophical Society : — "Propose a plusieurs membres de la So- 

 ciete Philosophique les avantages pour les Etats-Unis d'avoir 



■* Among the plants collected in this journey, he particularly mentions having 

 found Jlconitum uncinatum near Q,uebec ; but in the Flora no other locality is 

 given than the high mountains of J\orth Carolina. Major LeConte found it sev- 

 eral years ago in the southwestern part of New York, and Mr. Lapham has re- 

 cently detected it in Wisconsin. 



