
          many details about what I saw there. you want some indications about the
 localities which I found more interesting in the southern mountains; I will try
 to give them to you, though I have not here my notes, neither the names of the 
 plants which I collected. I began my journey in S. W. Tennesee near Dower
 went up the Cumberland to Nashville, [there?] to Huntsville Aa. [Alabama] and crossed
 the mountains from W. to E. so that I finished the exploration exactly at the 
 same place where the Gents of whom you speak is beginning his researches.
 M Sullivant had explored very cloosely [closely] French broad river; my time and money
 were out, so I stopped a few days only at Ashville N. C. to go from [there?] to the 
 summit of Black mts. This locality is very rich for the cryptogamous plants, but
 except Clintonia Borealis and some orchideae I did not collect any [added: rare] phanogamous
 plant. Nevertheless, I think that a station of one week at the base of black Mt
 15 miles E. of Ashland, at an old hunter Burnet, where one may be comfortably,
 would give good result. This place is surrounded by very high mountains of difficult 
 access and where probably one might find many interesting plants. As I tell you,
 I visited only the highest peak of the Black Mt and remained only three days in this
 small valley. Proceeding from Ashville through Pendleton, a very fine place for
 a long station is Clarksville Ga. [Georgia] One may easily go there by stages. Toccas falls,
 Tallaloh falls Union Cy Donah mt. Tray Mt, Union gap at the top of blue 
 ridge, all these localities are easily visited from this place and all, especially Tallaloh
 falls are very rich. There is at these falls a good hotel where your friend could perhaps
 stop a few days; I was there only two days and I much regrected [regretted] that I could not
 follow up the river till far in the mountains where there are dark recesses [illegible]
 good for new plants I think. It is the only place where I found in abundance 
 Xerophyllum asphodeloides with plenty of other fine species. I obtained these sphagnum 
 mulle st in fruit. From Clarksville [illegible] up the valley of the [Nanwchee?] one
 sees a few miles or the right Tray mt. the highest summit of the ridge.
        