André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803. — John Shaqi
André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.Harris, Thaddeus Mason
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André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.
Harris, Thaddeus Mason
Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel; Pennsylvania -- Description and travel; Southern States -- Description and travel; United States -- Description and travel
The 30th of the same, recognized a Plant of the Genus _Ziziphora_ ...
_Cunila pulegioides_[7] _floribus tetandris_; _Teucrium Canadense_,
_Eupatorium aromaticum_, _Sigesbeckia_ ...; _Verbenae_ several
species.
The 1st of August, herborised and recognized _Cassia Marylandica_;
_Monarda didyma_; _Sanicula Marylandica_; _Triosteum perfoliatum_;
_Sicyos angulata_; _Acer rubrum_, _saccharum_; _Campanula_, ...;
_Cercis Canadensis_; _Menispermum Canadense_; _Actaea spicata_;
_Tilia Americana_; _Urtica divaricata_; _Arum triphyllum_; _Celtis
occidentalis_; _Panax quinquefolium_; _Staphylea trifoliata_; _Azarum
Canadense_; _Rhus typhina_, _glabra_, _vernix_; _copallinum_,
_radicans_, _toxicodendron_; _Clinopodium vulgare_, _incanum_.
The 2nd of August recognized _Aristolochia sipho_ or _macrophylla_;
_Panax quinquefolium_; _Lobelia siphilitica_; _Convallaria_ many
species; _Veronica_ ... _Ozalis stricta_.
The 3rd and 4th of August herborised: _Cacalia_ 2 species, _Phryma
leptostachia_; _Leontice thalictroides_; _Lobelia siphilitica_,
_inflata_, _cardinalis_; _Eupatorium perfoliatum_, _maculatum_,
_odoratum et celestinum_; _Actea spicata_; _Podophyllum peltatum_;
_Azarum Canadense_; _Hydrophyllum Canadense_; _Trillium cernuum_;
_Panax quinquefolium_; _Aristolochia Sipho_; _Menispermum_ ...;
_Sambucus Canadensis fructu nigro_; _Sambucus_ ..., _fructu rubro
foliis tomentosis_; _Tilia Americana_; _Laurus Sassafras_, _benzoin_;
_Robinia pseudocacia_, _Juglans oblonga_, _Juglans hiccory_;
_Plantanus occidentalis_; _Acer rubrum_, _saccharum_; _Ulmus_
...; _Hamamelis_ ..., _Cynoglossum_ 3 species; _Vitis vulpina_;
_Dioscorea fructu infero_; _Teucrium Canadense_; _Scrophularia
Marylandica_; _Dracocephalum Virginianum_; _Dianthera_ ...; _Sophora
foliis ternis stipulis lato-lanceolatis floribus coeruleis vexillo
corollâ breviore_; _Mimulus ringens_; _Bignonia radicans_; _Cercis
Canadensis_; _Fagus sylvatica Americana_; _Circaea Canadensis_;
_Urtica inermis_; _Erigeron Canadense_; _Cornus florida_; _Rubus
odorata_, _Rubus occidentalis_; _Penthorum sedoides_; _Cephalantus
occidentalis_; _Polygonum aviculare_, _hydropiper_, _amphibium_,
_scandens_; _Sanguinaria Canadensis_.
On the 6th of August I saw on the bank of the Monongahela river
opposite Pittsburgh a Coal mine at the entrance of which there seems
to be a thickness of 15 feet of that mineral without admixture;
sometimes a ferruginous tint can be distinguished between the
different layers. In several spots soft rocks are to be found which
seem good for use as whet-stones for large tools; they seem to me to
consist of a combination of sandy, clayey and ferruginous particles
with particles of mica in very rare instances.
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