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a College subject) has a bright future, a treasure not yet 



excavated, not even anticipated.- Why ? A faithful picture be- 



comes an original in miniature and you survey with it in a room 



as correctly and even more so, because the c hange in light values 



disappears« That is the entire secret. A spark has been lißrhted 



in me, what can be accorapished through topography and must ac- 



conDlish, to provide for her sreneral entrance.- Our report is 

 ov\e 



the only /of seven, which shows what it is supposed to shows- 

 H 0ro= and hydro^raphic*' not only hydrosrraphic» * 



* Col. Bmory ordered the best newer works ( Offxice dra - 

 wings) of the Mexican bour^ries and if the field pictures were 

 equally good, the effort would merit high regard. - 



Stevens is the least capable and most shallow of the manufac- 

 ture. He is made of straw painfced with beautifuli oilcolors - 



brown partner of the reports of the Surouz. 



The others are nothing as our times H Semblance pure sera - 

 blance H ( in small letters below this quotation: Show nothing 

 but show ) with exception of Wipple, the most industrious, who 

 Drovides the only s:ood astronomical data*- 



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The maps to all the reports are'nt worth anything, the poorjjptrg- 

 ^Äti deliver?! his last opus in a delirium*? In fact , his last 

 map is only a negative Image, which his destroyed mind perhaps 

 imagined in unattainable color orgies • (Schnalz is colloquial 

 for cheap, romantic make-be lieve in German, E.D.). To him death 

 came as an angel of the coolino" dawn (aurora). Thus he was sacri- 

 ficed. 



I put a flower at the bottom of the Container with the 

 cones, which I took for you at the Basin u^h which a-opeared to me 

 very original« Write to me sometime if it is something interes- 

 ting, and what it is. 



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