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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.

Chapter 1: Transcriber’s Note:
By André Michaux
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A compilation of three travel journals documenting journeys across the trans-Alleghany West, combining close botanical observation, descriptions of landscapes and settlements, practical notes on cultivation and timber, and reports of encounters with local inhabitants. The texts alternate daily journal entries and scientific commentary, supplemented by maps, illustrations, and editorial material, and together they chronicle routes, plant collections, and experimental attempts at transplantation while also recording the social and geographic conditions encountered during exploration.

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Title: 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.

Author: André Michaux

Thaddeus Mason Harris

François André Michaux

Editor: Reuben Gold Thwaites

Release date: May 26, 2025 [eBook #76162]

Language: English

Original publication: Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904

Credits: Carol Brown, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 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. ***

Transcriber’s Note:

Long ‘s’ (ſ) were converted to ‘s’. Footnotes moved to the end of each book. There are two anchors to footnote [122] in André Michaux’s Travels.

Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, missing or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. In the second book, manuscript page numbers are displayed within brackets, e.g. {36}.

Words may have inconsistant spelling, diacriticals and hyphenation in the text. These were left unchanged, as were obsolete and alternative spellings. Except as noted below, misspelled words were not corrected.

The following were changed:


Fr. André Michaux