where I had sent 1113- trunk to, I thought it best 

 to stay over night & take my leisure in going 

 through the gap, which I was very anxious to 

 examine strictly. On my road to Richmond I 

 observed nothing new. The Podophyllum was 

 in full flower. The road goes all the way over 

 barren and dry hills, producing the same plants 

 in general as near Philada. 



Jun. 1. When I got up, I found it very 

 cloudy, with drizling rain, after breakfast it 

 looked somewhat better, I took the road, but I 

 had not went past 4. m. it began to rain again 

 pretty hard ; about two miles farther I came to 

 a publick house on the River, where I stood for 

 some time to get dry & let the rain over, wishing 

 very much to come to my trunk beyond the gap, 

 I ventured out again, at the distance of about 2 

 miles the road began to get interesting, being on 

 the foot of the mountain, which forms the Water 

 gap ; But I was very much disappointed in my 

 intention of spending a good part of the day here, 

 the rain begining again very hard, I had to make 

 the best & the quickest of my road, I observed 

 nothing new, a species of White Violet with deep 

 cordatcd leaves I think I have seen before ; on 

 the rocks I found Xephrodium lanosum Mx. & 

 Spiraea trifoliata for the first in flower this sea- 

 son ; a species of Erigeron is very plenty here, 

 but suppose it nothing else thanE. purpuraseens. 

 The scenery of this gap did not answer my ex- 

 pectation in grandeur ; the mountain makes a 

 very spacious opening for the river & the decliv- 

 ity of the rocks & hills on both sides are not 

 steep, l)u t very gradually deseending, so much 



