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of her skin having been rubbed off in travelling. 

 I took another walk towards the lake, hat ob- 

 served nothing more than mentioned before : In 

 the town, the Hyoscyamus niger grows as a 

 common weed in the streets . There are several 

 specimens of very curious granit on the Lake 

 shore in large blocks, they are red, mixed with 

 black, greenish black & white, they would look 

 beautif ull if worked into some monument : a small 

 peple of similare construction 1 kept as a speci- 

 men. It does not appear to be any limestone in 

 the banks of this lake, but I only seen a very 

 small part of it, so I can not exactly tell.— My 

 foot getting exceeding sore I concluted to return 

 as the place altogether was disagreeable to me. 

 I could not stay to get it well here. & so I sooner 

 might return, than stay, as I could do noth- 

 ing here : I got on board a boat & proceeded up 

 the river. 



At Oswego rift the Justicia pedunculosa was 

 in flower — pedunculis longitudine foliorum, flori- 

 bus capitatis, calyx 5— phyllus, subaequalis : foli- 

 olis lanceolatis tubo corolla? longior : corolla bi- 

 labiata, lab : superius planum, apice reflexum 

 purpurascens, bifidum 1. emarginatum ; lobis 

 lateralibus erecto patentes, oblongo rotundato 

 obtusse. Lab. inferius ovato oblongum, obtusum 

 lateribus reflexum, eleganter rubro-purpurascens 

 puuctatum ; antherse geminae. I fished up seve- 

 ral specimens of Valisneria, which grows in 

 great abundance in this river. Plantago major 

 grows on the banks & sometimes in the water 

 itself with leaves so large as the Pothos fcetida. 



