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TRAVELS IN 
At this rural retirement were alTembled a charm- 
ing circle of mountain vegetable beauties ; Mag- 
nolia auriculata, Rhododendron ferrugineuro, Kal- 
mia laiifolia, Robinia montana, Azalea flammula ? 
Rofa paniculata, Calycanthus Floiidus, Philadelphus 
inodorus, perfumed Convalaria majalis, Anemone 
thalictroides, Anemone hepatica, Erythronium 
maculatum, Leontice thalictroides Trillium' feffile* 
Trillium cefnum, Cypripedium, Arethufa, Qphrys, 
Sanguinaria, Viola uvularia, Epigea, Mitchella re- 
pens, Stewartia, Haiefia, Styrax, Lonicera, &c« 
Some of thefe roving beauties ftroll over the 
moffy, fhelving, humid rocks, or from off the ex- 
panfive wavy boughs of trees, bending over the 
floods, falute their delufive made, playmg on the 
furface ; fome plunge their perfumed heads and 
bathe their flexile limbs in the filver ftream ; whilft 
others by the mountain breezes are toffed about, 
their blooming tufts befpangled with pearly and 
cryftaline dew-drops collected from the falling 
mills, gliftening in the rainbow arch. Having 
collected fome valuable fpecimens at this friendly 
retreat, I continued my lonefome pilgrimage. My 
road for a considerable time led me winding and 
turning about the fteep rocky hills ; the defcent of 
fome of which Were very rough and troublefome, by 
means of fragments of rocks, flippery clay and talc : 
but after this I entered a fpacious foreft, the land 
having gradually acquired a more level furface : a 
pretty graffy vale appears on my right, through 
which my wandering path led me, clofe by the 
banks of a delightful creek, which fometimes falling 
over fteps of rocks, glides gently with ferpentine 
meanders through the meadows. 
After croffing this delightful brook and mead 3 
the land rifes again with, fublime magnificence, and 
I am 
