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TO HIS FATHER. 



New Yokk, 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 MES. TOEEEY. 



Batatia, Genesee County, N. Y. 

 Friday morning, August 10, 1838. 



My dear Mes. Torrey, — The place from which 

 I write is a very pleasant and flourishing country vil- 

 lage ; the shire-town of Genesee Coimty, 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- 



