
          to say. The gas is introduced into the laboratory
 in iron pipes to the pillars & thence to the tables
 in [?a?t?????]. There is a gas blowpipe here a 
 good feature of the room. Dr Easter who presides
 has received either his whole or his final Education
 under Liebig (at Munich I presume) & he has
 less of the manifest destiny of that school than
 any man I have ever seen, for to do the 
 disciples of Liebig credit. Organic chemistry is to
 them the "Magna [?]" of the Art & formalizing
 the whole business when they write papers.


 You ask me about the [Wth?] Carolina Copper business
 I have not heard from them since I left N.Y. & almost
 thought they had given up the matter for some time.
 I confess, I scarcely like to engage in manufacturing chemistry
 or to undertake so important a pecuniary transaction when
 my practical acquaintance is so trifling: and would feel 
 sorry if the necessity to live would compel me to take
 it, otherwise their arrangement with me was liberal &
 I have not given them a refusal: the cold winter has 
 I suppose checked operations there.


 I am my D. D. [dear doctor]
 Yours Sincerely
 Thomas Antisell
        