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1687.— Denonville's Report of his Expedition to the Genesee Coun- 

 try. Doc. Hist. State of New York, Vol. I. Albany, 1849. 

 He describes the country, the forest growth, the orchards and the culti- 

 vated fields, and gives details of the great quantity of corn destroyed. 



1715. — Account of the Expedition of Denonville as related by the 

 Baron La Hontan in his ''Travels in America." Collec- 

 tions of the New York Historical Society. Second Series, 

 Part I. New York, 1848. 

 Speaks of marching through immense forests of lofty trees, and of the 



woods abounding in oak, walnut and wild chestnut trees. 



1755. — Memoir upon the Late War in North America between the 



French and English. By M. Pouchot. Trans, by F. B. 



Hough. Roxbury, 1866. 



Describes the finding of ginseng by Father Lafitan, and says that it is 



most frequently found in the country of the Five Nations. Describes the 



oaks on the banks of the " Casconchiagon" (Genesee river). 



1785.— The North American Sylva. By F. A. Michaux. With Notes 

 by J. J. Smith. Philadelphia, 1855. 

 The author, who traveled through this country from 1785 to 1796, 

 making a special study of the trees, makes numerous mention of the trees 

 of the Genesee region. Of the iron-wood [Carpinns ostrya) he says : " I have 

 nowhere seen it more common nor more vigorous than in Genesee, near Lake 

 Ontario and Lake Erie." "The white elm (U/mus Americana) appears to 

 be the most multiplied and of the loftiest height between the 42d and 46th 

 degrees of latitude, which comprises the provinces of Lower Canada, New 

 Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the north-eastern section of the United States 

 and Genesee in the State of New York." " Basswood [Tz/z'a Americana) is 

 most abundant in Genesee. In some districts, particularly between Batavia 

 and New Amsterdam, it frequently constitutes two-thirds and sometimes the 

 whole of the forests." "The mossy-cup oak [Quercus olzvaformzs) I have 

 observed only in the State of New York, on the banks of the Hudson, above 

 Albany, and in Genesee, where it is so rare that it has hitherto received no 

 specific name." He says that Juglans porcina (pignut) is not found in the 

 Genesee country, but our collectors have proved that assertion to be incorrect. 

 He makes special mention of the sugar maple being common only in Genesee 

 and the upper part of Pennsylvania. He calls particular attention to the fact 

 that the black sugar maple {Acer nigrum) has hitherto been confounded by 

 botanists with the sugar maple, and says that "it forms a large part of the 

 forests of the Genesee. He mentions the coffee tree (Gymnocladus Cana- 

 densis) as being found in that part of Genesee which borders on Lake Ontario 

 and Lake Erie. Of Populus Canadensis, he speaks particularly of its growing 

 on the banks of the Genesee, and that the trees are seventy or eighty feet 

 in height and three or four feet in diameter. He mentions white ash, wild 



