
          In bootless quest of youth's renewing draught. 
No lingering winter here, in long delay, 
chills with her icy breath the cap of May. 
Nor spreads her bleak & desolating frost
O'er Appalachee's mild and palmy coast. 
+see Bartram's Travels

New Bern
October 20
N.C.

To
Dr. John Torrey
30 Macdougal St
New York

P.S.
Know'st thou the land where the wild orange blows, 
And famed Magnolia sheds its rich perfume; 
Mid crystal springs & where wide San Juan flows, 
And many a flower in wild profusion blows; 
Where the soft breeze from Cuba's spicy land
Woos Tampa's beauteous Bay, and Santa Rosa's strand, 
The Land which first romantic Leon sought, 
        