&T, 27.] TO MRS. TORREY. 67 
TO HIS FATHER. 
New York, August 6, 1838. 
I have resigned my place in the exploring expedi- 
tion! So that job is got along with. I have been 
long in a state of uncertainty and perplexity about the 
matter; but I believe that I have taken the right 
course. I leave here to-morrow, and am obliged to 
travel as fast as I can go to Detroit. I shall drop 
this note on the road somewhere: probably at Utica. 
I must get as near to Detroit as possible by Saturday 
evening. I hope to return in the latter part of the 
month; and intend to make you a visit on my way 
back. 
TO MRS. TORREY. 
Baravia, GENESEE County, N. Y. 
Friday morning, August 10, 1838. 
My pear Mrs. Torrey, — The place from which 
I write is a very pleasant and flourishing country vil- 
lage ; the shire-town of Genesee County, forty-four 
miles from Buffalo and about thirty-four from Roch- 
ester. Here is your humble servant and correspond- 
ent “laid up for repairs.” This is, you may say, my 
first stopping-place since I left New York, from which 
place I am distant 418 miles. But I may as well 
begin at the beginning. I left home, as you remem- 
ber, on Tuesday evening; breakfasted in Albany, 
dined at Utica, took stage immediately for Buffalo. 
We took our supper at Chittenango, which Dr. T. 
will recollect as the Ultima Thule of our peregrinations 
in the summer of 1836, and near which place we 
found the Scolopendrium. Riding all night we were 
at Auburn (a lovely village) by daybreak, and, pass- 
