
          be admitted that our fellow citizens are not distinguished for 
 their knowledge of the exact Sciences as they are called here, they
 think they know all that is useful when the Multiplication
 Table has been [endgested?] into them. You may tell Nuttall
 however for his consolation that his Book is much esteemed
 here and he appears to be considered the first [added with caret: North] American
 Botanist of the Day. By the way, I found the other day a
 copy of old [Correctis?] ["Pl. Can. Hist."?]


 You need be under no apprehension of my falling in love
 here. The people of Europe don't understand such romantic
 nonsense, it shows how green you must be to ask such a
 question. Matches here are made for interest and when a
 man does fall in love it [added with caret: is] with another man's wife or his
 mistress which is considered much the same thing. As
 I still retain some of my old fashioned prejudices I do not find
 it very easy to accommodate myself to French manners in all
 these respects. The state of Society in France has been
 much better since the Revolution & you must not understand [me?]
 as saying that there is absolutely no such thing as [Domestication?]
 or happiness-- far from it.


 Friday 12th


 I hope to receive today from L'pool [Liverpool] by the packet of the [16th?]
 the letter of introd'n [introduction] to [Augustin Pyramus] De Candolle which I wrote for by the
 Amity in May. I ought to hear besides from several other of my
 correspondents in N.Y. but I have already experiences the truth of the
 saying "out of sight &c." I am getting my passport signed by
        