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found nearer to Philada. than this place but I 

 almost doubt it has. 



15. I intended to leave this, this morning, 

 but it set in for rain, which made me give up the 

 Idea of leaving it this day : I wrote on the letter 

 for Dr. Barton & finished it so as to have it ready, 

 if any oportunity of sending it on, should offer. — 

 About noon it looked for clearing off ; I took the 

 road, but was soon overtaken by heavy showers 

 which obliged me take up lodging near Toby- 

 hannah creek — Before I arrived there I fell in 

 company of a gentleman on horseback going to 

 Easton to whose care I intrusted the letter, fin- 

 ished this morning, desiring him to be so kind 

 as to but it in the post office there. — Nothing re- 

 markable seen all this day ;as I descended down 

 Pokono, gradually the plants, so interesting to 

 me there left me, one after the other, & only 

 more common Pennsylvania plants made the 

 cover of the ground. 



16h. The morning promising a fair day, I was 

 anxious of seeing the great Wilkesbarre swamps, 

 after entering it, I soon found, that I would have 

 no more chance than just to walk the main road, 

 which is generally made artificially with logs & 

 ground on it ; the Tiarella cordifolia grows 

 here in great plenty ; now in full bloom. I ob- 

 served a white violet, similar to the one seen in 

 the Water gap, but near to it & seemingly con- 

 nected with the stolones of this, I observed leafs 

 & roots of an other species with very large & 

 thick leaves, quit different from the one men- 

 tioned. Here for the first time I seen the Oxalis 

 acetosella, as I supposed Michaux calls it, this 



