28/44 We here found several plants hitherto unknown to us, of which we preserved specimens." On the fourteenth of July, the boats were finally launched, and next day the journal records this important event: "We rose early, embarked all our baggage on board the canoes, which, though eight in number, are heavily loaded, and at ten o'clock set out on our journey. At the distance of seven and a half miles we came to the lower point of a woodland, at the entrance of a beautiful river, which, in honor of the Secretary of the Navy, we called Smith's River. |