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A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 
HISTORICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES, USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. &c„ 
WITH FIGURES. 
BY C. S. RAFINESQUE, 
■Professor of Historical and Natural Sciences, llember of many learned Socle* 
ties in America and Europe, Author of many Works, &c. &c. 
Knowledge is the mental food of mam. 
WOL. I. 
Philadelphia, Autumn of 1833. 
No, r. 
Article 140. 
Scientific Travels of C. 8. 
Rafinesque, in 1833. • 
My first journey this Spring 
was to the Pine barrens and 
Marl pits of New Jersey, I 
had a pit opened at my expense, 
and collected there many fine 
fossils, some of which are new. 
The second was in the South- 
ern States. I meant to follow 
the Apalachian Mis.. to the 
Luaka Mts. of N. Carolina and 
Tennessee; but was prevented 
by the rains and an accident: 
I explored however, the Mts. 
Eotocton of Firginia and Ma- 
ryland, which to my great sur- 
prise, I found divided into! 
three ranges or ridges, uniting 
into one N. of the Potomac* 
In July I took a fourth 
journey to the Pine barrens of 
N. Jersey, and the litoral 
islands of the sea shore at Ma» 
nahawkin and Long beach 
island, where I collected many 
shells and plants with m JSL 
<*. Ygramda maritima* 
My fifth Journey was in the 
mts. of New-forfc, after gL 
ving some lectures in IProyand 
expio ing the Bald mountain 
E. of Lansingburgh 1030 feet 
high. I went on a kind of sci- 
entific pilgrimage to the sour* 
ces of the ri vers Delaware and 
Sus<|uehannah, sites ofgreat in« 
terest and yet where no PMla^ 
delphian had ever gone to exr. 
nature. I found the 
physical geography of that re^ 
with an insulated mt in front gioti totally neglected by our 
to the E. called the Sugarloaf, 
%5 miles in circuit. All this is 
emitted in our maps. I brought 
many plants, and some N. sp* the Schorarie or Skohary mts 
My third excursion wa%on 
he Schuylkill, from the mouth 
map makers.. I explored the 
Heidelberg mts. or rather that, 
table-land of liOO to 1500 feet, 
the Dquago mts. 3000 to ,360® 
feet high, which are the wes* 
;o Manayunkand Sjmnjp-mi%terii side of the Kiskatom or 
