
          A few observations more, and we shall have done with Henry and his work.
After witnessing the [added: gross] absurdities, the absolutely unintelligible nonsense, and above all
the villianous [villainous] impositions with which the work before us abounds, it is with
mingled emotions of shame, astonishment and regret that we behold it
sanctioned by authority which ought ever to be held respectable. For the
literary reputation of our country, we will still [crossed out: believe] hope, that notwithstanding
those scientific gentlemen at New York inform us they rejoiced at its publication,
they had only looked over it without [added and crossed out: serving? on] [added: working into it or] its contents, upon
which alone this rejoicing should have been founded. But the sacrifice of literary
or medical reputation* in blindly recommending this American Herbal
is not the only evil to be anticipated: although these imprudent and
unwarrantable recommendations cannot long prevent the work they
are intended to [crossed out: unfold] uphold from sinking into oblivion upon
the ground of its own intrinsic worthlessness, much mischief may be
done by masters and mistresses of families attempting to identify
American with the European plants which are preposterously
figured by the Herbalist. Many of our Umbellatae, in particular, might
be stumbled upon for those ingraved and the result be fatal. Cicuta maculata, 
which is a deleterious plant, could readily be mistaken for Angelica
sylvestris, and cause the masters and mistresses of families as well as those
who have prematurely rejoiced at the publication of fraud and perjury.
to repent of their folly when [crossed out: it is] too late.

We now, therefore, dismiss this unpleasnt subject, with a hope
that in future, the works of [crossout: ill [illiterate]] ignorant and illiterate pretenders to the
Healing art, will not be indiscriminatly tolerated or encouraged, be
the disgrace of our country, by those from whom better things ought
to be expected. If a similar work be ever offered for their examination,
and they should in their cursory views discover in the
midst of an extended mass of unintelligible matters, a [added: a few] solitary fact
or two that may be worthy of perservation, we adjure them
by their love of decency, to select, correct and arrange them
before they are presented to the public eye.

*What an excellent fund of malignant entertainment this American Herb [Herbal]
would afford the Quarterly Reviewers! Although the author of it, who is
most probably himself of transatlantic origin, an exotic, like most of the
[plants?] he has [treated?] of, would not be an object worthy of [added: this special] notice,
the New York Scientific gentry would most appropriably come under the [ash?]
of criticism, and we do not see how they could honorably extricate themselves
from the difficulty in which they are involved.
        