[1] See documents in _Original Journals of Lewis and Clark_ (New York, 1904), appendix. [2] See Turner, “Origin of Genet’s Projected Attack on Louisiana and the Floridas” in _American Historical Review_, July, 1897; also documents in American Historical Association _Report_, 1896 and 1897. [3] See review in _Monthly Anthology_ (Boston, 1810), viii, p. 280. [4] The notes in the journals of the elder Michaux signed C. S. S., are those of Sargent, found in the French edition and designed chiefly to elucidate botanical references. [5] The references in Sargent’s notes marked “Michx.,” refer to this _Flora_. JOURNAL OF ANDRÉ MICHAUX, 1793-1796 SOURCE: Englished from the original French, appearing in American Philosophical Society _Proceedings_, 1889, pp. 91-101, 114-140. JOURNAL OF ANDRÉ MICHAUX On the 15ᵗʰ of July 1793, I took leave of Citizen Genet, Minister of the Republic of France to the United States[1] and started from Philadelphia on the same date at ten o’clock at night to avoid the great heat, and to travel by Moonlight. The 16th, being in company with ... Humeau and ... Leblanc,[2] we journeyed 40 miles. The 17th, passed by Lancaster and made 35 Miles. The 18th, passed by Carlisle ... Miles and slept at Chipesbourg [Shippensburg]. The 19th we slept at Strasbourg ... Miles. Sunday the 20th, we started from Strasbourg, a small town situate at the foot of the Mountains; one of our horses having fallen sick we traveled only 21 Miles; observed _Magnolia acuminata_, _Azalea octandra_, _Kalmia latifolia_, _Fagus castanea_, _Fagus pumila_, _Pinus 2-folia_, _3-folia_, _Strobus_: _Abies Canadensis_; _Quercus castaneaefolia etc._ _Juglans nigra_. The 21st of July started from Wells’s tavern, crossed the Juniata river ... and noticed _Rhododendron maximum_, _Hydrangea frutescens_, _Trillium erectum_; slept at Bedford. 21 Miles. The 22nd. Started from Bedford and breakfasted at a place 4 miles distant where the Pittsburg Road divides into two. We took the right hand road; the Rain compelled us to stop and sleep only twelve Miles from Bedford.[3] The 23rd we made 24 Miles and passed the summit of the Alleganys. The 24th we made 25 Miles. The 25th we passed by Green’sburg and made 31 Miles. The 26th Rain; we made only ... Miles. The 27th, we made 19 Miles and arrived in Pittsburgh. Total 32[4] Miles from Philadelphia. The 28th visited Mr. H. Brackenridge.[5] The 29th herborised; recognized on the banks of the Monongahela, _Dracocephalum Virginianum_,[6] _Bignonia radicans_, _Crotalaria alba?_ These plants grow on the banks of the river which are submerged when the waters are high.