Sunday 3rd of May started for the Mountains; at a distance of 14 Miles from Burke is Wagely's house.
The Lineville Mountains at whose foot this house is situated, abound in Magnolia auriculata. They were then in flower. From Wagely's to Captain Young's is 8 Miles.
The 4th of May left Young's. The distance to Ainswort's is 2 Miles but by going to the right one reaches the foot of a very high Mountain 3 Miles from Young's. The summit is 5 Miles from Young's.
From the summit of the Mountain at Young's to Bright's, called Bright's Settlement, the distance is 3 Miles and from Bright's to Davin Port's 2 Miles, making 10 Miles in all from Young's to Davin Port's.[87]
The 5th of May herborised in the vicinity of the dwellings of Davin Port and Wiseman.
The 6th started for the Mountains, namely: Round [Roan] Mountain and Yellow Mountain; Toe River flows between these Mountains. All the Convallaria were in flower as well as the Podophyllum diphyllum and umbellatum.
Sunday 10th of May 1795 returned from the Mountains to the dwelling of Davin Port.
- [Footnote: against the Cherokees, he was commissioned to negotiate a treaty with this
tribe in 1777. During the war Colonel Avery was in active service as a militia officer; at its close he settled four miles from Morganton, calling his plantation "Swan Ponds." Five times Burke County sent him to the state legislature, and in 1796 to the senate. Andrew Jackson challenged Avery to a duel in 1788, but later became his firm friend. He died about 1821.—Ed.]
