After sundry explorations along the coast, be' established a botanical garden at Tametave, in which he planted-all the trees and plants which might be objects of usefulness or curiosity. The climate, unfortunately, was exceedingly unhealthy, and, trusting too much to his good constitution and habits of exposure, he neglected the proper precautions, was taken sick with fever, and died at the end of December, 1803.

Francis Andre Michaux, on his own account, had not remained inactive. Aroused by the example of his parent, and now fully arrived at manhood, he could not look back to the unfinished work of his father in the United States without becoming alive to the most ardent desire to achieve the object which they had both in view. Conversant with several States of the Union, confident in his own experience and abilities further to serve his country, he was, on his side, earnestly soliciting a commission to the United States.

This opportunity was at last afforded to him through the celebrated De Chaptal, then Minister of the Interior, Who, feeling dissatisfied with the result of the nurseries of New Jersey and Charleston since the departure of the elder Michaux, and thinking more benefit would accrue from the appointment of native correspondents in the principal seaports of the Union, consulted Francis A. Michaux in the matter, and appointed him to effect those objects. He gave him instructions, at the same time, to sell the properties when he had forwarded home all the trees and shrubs remaining in the two French nurseries above mentioned.

Michaux, highly gratified, set out immediately for Bordeaux, at which port he embarked for Charleston, with the same captain and on the same vessel that had brought him home thence, some ten years previous. After a short and pleasant passage, he landed at his place of destination on the 9th of October, 1801. He occupied himself almost immediately, and during the following winter, in sending to France the trees and shrubs of the nursery; and,this part of his instructions being fulfilled, he embarked for New York on the same errand.

As soon as the season became favorable, he began his herborizations in New Jersey and along the banks of the North River. In these explorations he discovered several new species of oaks and hickories, the acorns and nuts of which he sent to France in abundance. He had also the opportunity of determining with more accuracy the botanical characters of the black oak (Quercus tinctoria), one of the largest trees of the American forests, and also one of the most valuable for the quality of its wood, as well as for its dyeing properties.

He next visited Philadelphia, where he had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with some of her most celebrated men, among whom he mentions the Rev. Dr.

Collin, Dr. Benj. S. Barton, Messrs. Vaughan, Peale, Wm. Bartram, etc. He visited with great satisfaction the botanical garden of the latter gentleman, and the magnificent greenhouses of Mr. Wm. Hamilton, which contained a rich collection of exotics, principally New Holland plants. His attention was more particularly attracted by the latter gentleman's romantic grounds, called The Woodlands, wholly planted with every American tree and shrub that conld withstand the severity of a Philadelphia winter. Finding he had a few months to dispose of, he took advantage of this circumstance to visit the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, about which he had so frequently heard his father apeak in the most enthusiastic terms.

He set out from Philadelphia on the 27th of June, 1802; passed through Lancaster, Columbia, York, Carlisle, and Shippensburg; then crossing the Alleghany Mountains, he reached Pittsburg in ten days, travelling alternately in stage, on horseback, or on foot. He left Pittsburg on the 14th of July, on foot, for Wheeling, and there purchased a canoe to descend the Ohio River, in company with an American officer of the name of Craff. In three days they reached Marietta, and on the tenth day they landed at Limestone, now Maysville. From that place he travelled alone to Lexington, which he left on the 10th of August for Nashville.

Michaux remained in Nashville four weeks, which were employed principally in botanizing around the town and along the banks of the Cumberland River. On the 5th of September he set out on his journey back to Charleston, by way of Fort Blunt, West Point, and Knoxville, which latter place he reached on the 17th, after stopping several days at the Falls of Roaring River, to explore the beautiful country around. From Knoxville he travelled to Greenville, and thence to Jones-borough, the last town of Tennessee. On the 21st he began crossing the high ridge which divides the State of Tennessee from North Carolina, and, after two days of the most toilsome journey through the mountains, he reached the farm of old Davenport, who had been formerly his father's guide in that rugged region.» There he remained a week, for the double purpose of resting and conversing with him about his father, who, shortly after, on the inhospitable coast of Madagascar, died a victim to the climate and to his zeal for the progress of science.

Michaux reached Charleston on the 18th of October.

Such was Francois Andre Michaux's exploring journey to the western States, of which he published a very detailed account, two years afterwards, in a work entitled " Voyage a p Ouest des Monts Alleghany, etc. etc." During this journey be did not merely devote his attention to botanical pursuits, but, with his usual habits of observation and extraordinary sagacity of mind, he diligently inquired into the state and modes of agriculture, the nature of the different soils, their particular vegetable productions, and the commercial relations existing between those remote regions and the Atlantic cities. He always felt pleasure in relating the episodes of this long and toilsome journey through regions then but thinly settled, and still the abode of the roving Indian tribes.

He spoke with enthusiasm and in terms of unreserved gratitude of attentions of which he was the object: his name was a passport which insured to him a most hearty welcome, and every assistance from those who bad known his father, and had received from him seeds for planting or instructions in farming. To the new settlers he was always provided with letters of introduction, which procured him the same good reception.

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