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precipice to the top of the fall, & followed this 

 ran up towards the top of the mountain. This 

 brook has so many smaler falls, that we hardyly 

 were able to come along, but we persisted in it' 

 to the top of the mountain : wheie we found it 

 having its origin in an altogether impenetrable 

 & inaccessible swamp. I found here Diervilla 

 tournefortii in flower & Acer montanum in seeds ; 

 from here we went over the mountain in another 

 direction & home towards the tavern. This walk 

 had been, in my present weak situation very fatig- 

 uing to me. On our route home I found Anemone 

 pensylvanica&Geum canadense. — The river shore 

 is covered with Carpinus americana, Water 

 beach & White Mapple & Button wood. 



22. — As I thought the nighborhood about the 

 falling spring very interesting I took an othe r 

 excursion to it, to day ; Hydrocotyle americana 

 not yet flowering covers a great part of the wet 

 rocks about it ; I observed nothing new & as I 

 felt myself very ill, made the best of my way to- 

 wards the tavern ; very much exhausted I arrived 

 tlure & indeed I apprehended the greatest dan- 

 ger from my situation of health ; From the time 

 I was taken with this sickness of stomach & col- 

 ical complaint at Wilkesbarre, to this clay I used 

 the infusion of Eupatorium perioliatum, which 

 has done me good so often, very freely ; but it 

 would do no help this time, my stomach remain - 

 ing in the same situation, not bearing the least 

 of food or drink without vomiting. Notwith- 

 standing all this, I concluded if possible to leave 

 this place to morrow, & go on towards the beach 

 woods, which I was very anxious to see, without a 



