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The frontispiece is a portrait of Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior, King of the Siminoles, and the other plates include plants and two of a great soft-shelled tortoise. The map shows the coast of Florida from above St. Augustine to Cape Canaveral." A work of high character well meriting its wide esteem"-Howes. "This book of travels is famous both for its intrinsic worth and for its associations with Wordsworth and Coleridge. While Bartram loved to parade his knowledge of botanical nomenclature, he leaves plenty of room for a fascinating narrative of his journeys and a valuable description of Indian life. He embarked for Charleston, South Carolina, in April, 1773, and returned to Philadelphia in January, 1778, but he makes no mention of the Revolutionary war then under way." - Cox II. Howes B223; Sabin 3870.