
          Woodstock Vt [Vermont]
 March 21st


 My Dear Doctor,


 I received your letter of the 14th which left
 you "down among the Jerseys" where I cannot envy
 you your position, if you feel when away from home,
 as I do, out of gear as it were & what is worse
 almost always out of humor. I am here nearly 3 weeks.
 I have another five before me before I see again those
 beautiful paralelograms of bricks & mortar as Chas. [Charles]
 Lamb calls them. Our class here is small, not more
 than 60 at present & will not increase much; this is owing
 to our president & teacher of anatomy having gone to Louisville
 & not being here as usual to keep up a winter class. I think
 I will not venture down again into these [hyperborean?]
 [refinery?] another year.


 I am glad that Hall is likely to get the Jersey Survey.  I
 hope he will set the natives right about that green sand
 & the quantity of potash which it contains, which Rogers led the 
 folk to think contains 10 per cent of alkali. He did not state
 that, but his analysis leads to the inference. I never could
 get more than 51/2 per cent & that is a large yield. With 
 regard to that galena analysis I am sorry it did not
 come up to the idea of what it ought to contain. I have
 sufficient of it at home for a couple of determinations
 & when I return I will leave it at your laboratory. I should 
 be glad to have my own specimens checked off.


 Before my arrival here (March 2) I had been in Michigan
 & western Canada for a fortnight & lost all the newspaper

        