Observed in bloom: Ulmus viscosa, Acer rubrum [male] flower on one individual and [female] flower on another tree. The 17th slept near Bull's gap 30 Miles from Iron Works. The 18th passed by Lick creek and by Green court house 18 Miles from Bull's gap. The 19th passed by Johnsborough 25 Miles from Green [ville]. Several merchants are established at Johnsborough who obtain their goods from Philadelphia by land. Sunday the 20th started from Johnsborough. Saw in passing Mr Overton of Kentuckey,[178] Major Carter of Wataga[179] at whose house I had lodged several years previously with my son, and Colonel Avery. Sunday 20th of March 1796 saw in bloom Corylus americana, [female] flower having the Styles or Stigmas of a purpurine color. Ulmus viscosa geminis aureis floribus 4-5-6-andris, stigmatibus purpureis. Acer rubrum [male] flower on one individual and [female] flower on another. Slept at Colonel Tipton's 10 Miles from Johnsborough. The 21st remarked that the Mountains were covered in several places with Sanguinaria, Claytonia and Ery-*
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