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Florida, and as far west as Kentucky and the Cumberland settle- 

 ments. Oil his travels he was sometimes accompanied by his 

 son, Francois Andre, who was only fifteen years old upon their 

 first arrival. During all these years, although for a part of the 



FRANCOIS ANDRE MICHAUX, 1770-1855 

 (Daguerreotype, 1851) 



time he was engaged upon a political mission for the French 

 government, Michaux seems to h'ave had in mind the accumulation 

 of material for a general flora of North America, and when he 



