4G EARLY UNDERTAKINGS. [1834, 



do not act in concert with the faculty, and it is ru- 

 mored quarrel among themselves, so that, unless some 

 changes are effected in the board, I fear the college 

 will not be sustained. I shall remain here five weeks 

 longer, and then have a short engagement at Utica. 

 I have promised to make a visit to the north in Au- 

 gust. I wish very much that I was able to remain 

 there six or seven weeks, to examine with attention 

 the vegetation of the primitive region in St. Lawrence 

 and Franklin counties. I cannot doubt that the 

 mountains and the banks of the large streams of that 

 region would furnish a rich harvest of plants. That 

 range is an extension of one from the far north, which, 

 passing between the Great Lakes and Hudson's Bay, 

 crosses the St. Lawrence at the Thousand Islands, 

 and passes through St. Lawrence, Franklin, and 

 Clinton counties. Consequently many sub - alpine 

 plants, such as Anemone Hudsonica, Trisetum moUe, 

 Geum triflorum, etc., are found in this region farther 

 south than elsewhere. The mineralogy of the region, 

 also, needs to be farther explored. The expense of 

 such a tour, divided between Dr. Crawe and myself, 

 traveling in a conveyance of our own, will be compar- 

 atively trifling. 



I find, however, that further supplies of several 

 New Jersey grasses are absolutely required to enable 

 me to make out the necessary number of suits this 

 fall of the first part of my " Grasses." I see also by the 

 list before me that they (with few exceptions) are in 

 good state as late as the 8th or 10th of September, and 

 that they can all be obtained without proceeding far- 

 ther south than Tom's River ; so that I have no alter- 

 native but to hasten back to New York, and make a 

 flying trip to Tom's River (or Howel Works at least) 



