
          to him mentioning my absence from Ame'a [America] and then I will [crossed out: try?] [?] attend to
 the work of procuring plants from the South of Europe. 


 Dr. E. James [probably Edwin James] seems to be a queer fellow indeed, though I should [?] 
 a very competent man for the work you say he is about to undertake.
 [Thomas] Nuttall's work must be interesting. I have seen in a periodical work
 published here a translation or abstract of [Henry] Schoolcraft's [?].


 You have fallen into a small error which I shall take
 this opportunity to correct. You say I promised to tell you
 of everything I said or did. Now you ought to know that
 when a young man leaves home & comes to such a place as
 Paris he will do things which he does not exactly like
 to commit to writing. I do not say this is my case  [crossed out: only] but I
 shall make no such promises. As for that part of my adventure
 which it is not necessary to be so reserved about, you [crossed out: have] know
 them already from my letters to my mother. If however you
 had written to me as soon as I expected I should probably 
 have had something to say to you in return but I have
 now almost forgotten my obervations. You know that I
 have seen the mines of Cornwall, the mountains of Wales,
 the Lakes of Cumberland, the "heathery braes" of Scotland, &
 ruind castles & abbeys everywhere. Perhaps you will ask
 if I made a large collection of specimens in Bot'y [Botany] & Miner'y [Mineralogy].
 Before I left London I made preparations for botanizing but
 I found it impracticable, traveling in the manner I did. The
 general aspect of a field or [crossed out: [unreadable]] thicket or copse, for you never see
        