
          tree in the field 10 miles east of
 Fort Yuma, from which I collected
 the veritable from acacia, much 
 to the detriment of my clothes
 which came off second best in the 
 contest with the thorns. I also enclose
 the nuts of the little shrub
 which I mentioned you was so
 plentiful on the [Sila Nias ?] the
 mouth of the San Pedro.


 The House of Represent's [Representatives] in a economical
 fit having negative the
 appropriation for [?] & maps
 for the R.R.Road [Railroad], the foremost purpose
 to bring it up again in a little
 while & get it passed. They have
 little doubt but that toward the
 close of the Session they will succeed.


 I think that a new mode of making
 Sulpho Cyanide of Potassium
 occurred to me the other day. We had
 nine here & was making some the usual 

        