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Gainsborough portrays a confident Peter Collinson,
1	.ondon draper who distributed Bartram's exotica.
Specimen of ginseng, pressed, annotated and shipped by Bartram, wound up in an carl's album.
River, they came by Tulpehocken 11ii 1, ?so called from the Indian word signifying a tortoise, unto which the natives of the country |had] conceived it bears some similitude.? Riding up a steep and stony ridge, he was warned ?by a well known alarm to keep our distance from an enraged rattlesnake.? . . . After they had ?punished his rage by striking him dead. . . . we took notice that while provoked he contracted the muscles of the scales so as to appear very bright anti shining but after the mortal stroke his splendor [was| much diminished.? They traveled on to a spot where he saw fossil ?impressions of shells in the loose stones.? Later they encountered eight Shawanese Indians going to YViomick and all sat down under a shady oak. A scptaw kindled a file to light their pipes, and Weiser ?acquainted them with inn business. . . . They were so well pleased that they gave us the Ibliay, a partic ular Indian expression
of approbation which is very difficult for a white man to imitate well.?
They continued along "a fine bottom full of great wild nettles . . . up a hill covered with spruce, oak spruce, lawrel [sic], opulus, yew with ginseng and ataliathun in abundance . . . over boggy rotten places . . . to an old beaver dam . . . by a very thick and tall timber of beach [sic], chestnut, linden, ash, great magnolia, sugar birch, sugar maple, poplar, spruce, with . . . roots and moss perpetually shaded . . . constantly rotting and rendering the earth loose and spongy. . . . We lodged in a bottom . . . had a fine warm night and one of the Indians sung in a solemn harmonious manner . . .whence I conjectured it to be a hymn to the great spirit.?
After pushing through a ?miserable thicket? and woods where the trees grew so close "it seems almost