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
Banks of the Cheroquis river (Tenassee): _Platanus_; _Juglans pacana,
Hiccori_, pignut; _Liquidambar_; _Quercus rubra, prinus_; _Anonymos
carpinoides_; _Anonymos ligustroides_;[145] _Betula austrolis_
grey-bark Birch,[146] which is found throughout America from Virginia
to the Floridas; it differs from the _Betula papyrifera_; _Bignonia
catalpa_; _Ulmus_; _Fraxinus_; _Vitis rubra_ or _monosperma_;
_Gleditsia triacanthos_; _Diospiros_; _Smilax pseudochina_; _Bignonia
crucigera_, _radicans_; _Rajania ... Dioecia 8-dria_; _Populus
Caroliniana_, by the French Creoles Liard, and by the Americans
Cotton tree. (Note: The Canada Poplar is called by the Canadians
Tremble and by the English of Canada Quaking Aspen); _Acer rubrum,
saccharinum, negundo_; _Anonymos ligustroides_; _Anonymos
ulmoides_.[147]
(The 22nd of June 1795, according to the Gazette the Agents of the
French Republic were recognized by President Washington
Philip Joseph Letombe, Consul General
Théodore Charles Mozard, Consul at Boston
Jean Anthony Bern Rosier, Consul at New York
Léon Delaunay, Pennsylvania
Louis Etienne Duhait, Maryland)[148]
The 15th October 1795 herborised.
The 16th descended the river and camped at the mouth of the Shavanon
River called Cumberland river by the Americans eighteen Miles from
fort Massac; killed a Canada Goose called by the French Canadians
and Illinois French Outarde; killed two water-Hens an American
kingfisher, an American pelican.
The 17th ascended the River about ten Miles; there were numbers of
wild Turkeys on the banks; the Rowers and I killed five from the
Canoe in passing, without landing.
The 18th continued on our way toward the upper part of the River.
The 19th descended the river.
Tuesday 20th of October 1795 returned to Fort Cheroquis or Fort
Massac.
Trees and Plants in the neighborhood on the Banks of the Ohio.
_Platanus occidentalis_, by the Americans Sycamore and by the
Illinois French cotonnier; _Populus_, by the Americans Cotton
tree and by the Illinois French, Liard; _Celtis occidentalis_,
by the Americans Hackberry tree and by the French Bois inconnu;
_Liquidambar styraciflua_, by the French of Louisiana Copalm and by
the Americans....
A Frenchman who traded among the Cheroquis Savages cured himself
of the Itch by drinking for ten days a decoction of Chips of that
tree which he called Copalm and which is the true _Liquidambar_;
_Gleditsia triacanthos_, fevier (bean-plant) by the French and sweet
locust by the Americans.
_Guilandina dioica._[149]
Sunday 25th of October 1795 _Spiraea trifoliata_ is a purgative used
by the Savages and by the Illinois French. They call it Papiconah. In
the neighborhood of Fort Cheroquis is found also the Geranium called
herbe or rather Racine à Becquet which is given for chronic Diseases
during several weeks; _Veronica virginica_ called by the French herbe
à quatre feuilles (four-leaved grass) is often added.
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