CORRESPONDENCE. 



pompous display of trite and peurile knowledge, the same care 

 should be taken to attach such scientific persons to the expedition 

 as are, at least, acquainted generally with what is already known, 

 and have kept pace with the advance of knowledge. Either 

 nothing should be done in this way, or it should be well and 

 thoroughly done. It strikes me, that some well-qualified person 

 should be charged by the government with recording the incidents 

 of the voyage, and that the work should be published under its 

 patronage. 



Such is a brief outline of my ideas on this subject, which I have 

 hastily sketched, in a manner which I fear you will hardly be able 

 to read, as my eyes are at this moment actually distilling hot 

 water, in consequence of a severe cold in my head. You will 

 excuse me for troubling you with these crude notions, which are 

 thrown out in the hope that they may not be altogether useless to 

 you, should you, as I presume you will, be charged with any 

 active agency in the objects of the expedition. 

 I am, dear sir, 



Your friend and servant, 



J. K. PAULDING. 

 J. N. REYNOLDS, Esq., 

 New-York. 



