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Jun. 7. Sundays. Set out for an excursion up 

 Delaware through the Minisinks. Following 

 nearly the banks of the river, without road, I 

 expected to see something interesting — but 

 nothing occured to me. In several places the 

 Salsola prostrata grows in the sands, Cistus cana- 

 densis beginning to flower — I went up as far as 

 the line of New York. Crossed the River & 

 went down it to a small village called Millford 

 here I stood over night. 



N.B. The soil through this part of Minisink is 

 similar to the lower part of Yersey. The banks 

 are covered with Silver or White maple, Prunus 

 virg. Tilia americana, Platanus & Chestnut Oaks, 

 Humulus lupulus, Celastrus, Uvularia perfol : 

 in flower. 



Jun. 8. Shortly before I left this to return to 

 Ennis's down the river I learned that a 

 Post office were kept in the tavern I had stop- 

 ped : I wrote a few lines to Dr. Barton to inform 

 him of my progresses in a few words : I set out 

 from here, along the banks of the river on a very 

 interesting road, going sometimes along a preci- 

 pice of immense height down to the river. Mill- 

 ford lays onSaw creek,l. below a small creek call'd 

 White brook ; 4 or 5 lower down the Conne- 

 cheague 6m. lower Reamannskill — from there to 

 Dingmanns bushkill — along the river hills Trago- 

 pogon virginicum, a very handsome coloured 

 plant, Scrophularia nodosa, here I took an ex- 

 cursion up through the mountain which are very 

 high here : The berries of G-aultheria ripe, very 

 good eating. On the highest knob which was ex- 

 ceeding barren I found Lycopodium rupestre. 



