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other common plants I observed here Clematis 

 virginiana. Inula heleuium, Rudbeckia lacin- 

 iata, &C. bnt nothing worth any particular no 

 tice, in my walk I experienced the weakness 

 which my sickness had occasioned, very much, 

 which lowered my spirits very considerable, as I 

 thought what a situation I must come to if I 

 should fall sick now, & be deprived of going on 

 in my pursuits ; I really never have been more 

 alarmed by my illness, than 1 am now, which 

 must be owing to the relaxation & debility of all 

 the frame, which this Influenza occasions. 



31, From TJtica I had about 50 m. to come 

 where the road turns off to Johnstown, the route 

 recommended me to go, to Ruttland & the heath 

 of lake Champlain. I arrived at the falls of 

 Mohock, where we dined about 2 o'clock ; while 

 they were preparing dinner I took a short excur- 

 sion back to the falls ; Here I observed Verbena 

 officinalis. Verbascum Blattaria, Mentha spec. 

 Potamogeton natans & several species of Aster 

 & Solidago all very familiar to me ; different 

 sorts of the more common ferns covered the 

 rocks : viz : Polypodium vulgare, Xephrodium 

 dentatnm, marginale &e. Here I left the stage 

 ft took up my lodging at the tavern for night, 

 with intentions of going on towards Saratoga on 

 foot to morrow. 



Sept. 1. From Palatine church, where I stayd 

 last night, I proceeded this morning on foot to the 

 left of the stage road : the road leeds through a Pine 

 woods, consisting chiefly of white Pine. & in place 



