
          I had the pleasure of mailing
 to you, I think in July, a copy of my
 report on Ancient Monuments of
 Historic N. York- which I was asked
 to transmit under frank of one M.C.
 Hon. K.E. [Freuton?] and I trust the
 rep't. may have duly reached you or
 I should place great value upon
 your opinion respecting this brief
 memoir - I had [?] of
 the subject pub. in March No. of "Cosmopolitan
 [?] Journal" which you
 may have seen.


 I may perhaps have [?]
 in mentioning that I propose to
 make survey of other [Earthworks?]
 in the [basin?] contigious to Lake Erie - 
 and to institute somewhat extended
 enquiries relating to antiquities upon
 Eastern and Western Hemispheres.


 I also intend, in accordance
 with regard of N.Y. Lyceum of Natural

        