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At this rural retirement were affembled a charm- 
ing circle of mountain vegetable beauties ; Mag- 
nolia auriculata, Rhododendron ferrugineum, Kal- 
mia latifolia, Robinia montana, Azalea flarnmula, 
Rofa paniculata, Calycanthus Floridus, Philadelphus 
inoclorus, perfumed Convalaria majalis, Anemone 
thaliclroides, Anemone hepatica, Erythronium ma- 
culatiim, Leontice thaliblroides, Trillium feffile, 
Trillium cefnum, Cypripedium, Arethufa, Ophrys, 
Sanguinaria, Viola uvularia, Epigea, Mitchella re- 
pens, Stewartia, Halefia, Sty rax, Lonicera, &c. 
Some of thefe roving beauties {troll over the 
moffy, {helving, humid rocks, or from off the ex- 
panfive wavy boughs of trees, bending over the 
floods, falute their delufive fliade, playing 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 
chryftaline dew-drops collected from the falling 
mills, gliftening in the rainbow arch. Having 
collebted fome valuable fpecimens at this friendly 
retreat, I continued my lonefome pilgrimage. My 
road for a confiderable time led me winding and 
turning about the Iteep 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 1 entered a fpacious foreir, the land 
having gradually acquired a more level furface : a 
pretty graffy vale appears on my right, through 
which rny wandering path led me, clofe by the 
banks of a delightful creek, which fometimes fall- 
ing over Heps of rocks, glides gently with ferpen- 
tine meanders through the meadows. 
After crofting this delightful brook and mead, 
the land rifes again with iublime magnificence, and 
I am 
