PURSII'S JOURNAL. 



May 2G. — Prepared myself for the yourncy, & 

 but my things to the stage office, in which place 

 I stayd over night. 



27. — At 4 o'clock this morning we left Phila- 

 delphia, the stage being remarkable full of pas- 

 sengers & goods, which made it very disagreable 

 travelling ; the road about 25. m. from the city 

 got bad & hilly ; we brok down the stage twice, 

 but lukyly without any injury to us ; arrived at 

 10 o'clock in the evening at Easton. Took up 

 lodging at Abraham Horn's Sign of the Golden 

 Swan. All this day I dit not observe anything 

 in flower what I had not seen about Philada. 



28. — The cramp ride in so full a stage, & the 

 unaccustomed shaking of the body by the bad, 

 rough roads made me feel more sore & stiff as I 

 would have been if travelled on foot. I delivered 

 my letter to Judge "Wagoner, who promised to 

 give me all assistance in his power. Crossed the 

 Lehigh and ascended a very steep rock opposite 

 the town ; vegetation here seemed to be somewhat 

 later than at Philada. In flower, Sisyrinchium 

 mucronatum Mx. ; Azalea nudifl., Cornus Flori- 

 da, Cerastium vulgatum & glabrum P., Carex, 2 

 or 3 species ; Arabis lyrata, Veronica arvensis 

 & serpyllifolia, Arenaria serpyllifolia, Senecio ob- 

 ovatus Muhl., Viola palmata, pedata, cucullata, 

 Erigeron pulchellum, Mx.; Krigia Virginica, 

 Phlox subulata, Geranium maculatum, Oxalis 

 corniculata, Potentilla reptans. This plant I 

 never could satisfy myself about its species ; it 

 grows very common about Philada. on dry hills. 



