
          Nothing could be more agreeable to me, than to join you
 & Mr. Schwinitz in your proposed journey to Pokono.  It is
 decidedly the most interesting region of Penn, for a 
 botanical excursion, so far as I am acquainted with
 the State: and it has, moreover, never been fully explored, did
 not examine the county fully.  I crossed it about
 nine years ago, and found a numbe of plants
 which were then new to me: but I had not time
 to extend my researches beyond the margins of the
 public road.  The time which you have selected
 for your excursion, I fear will not suit my
 engagements so as to permit me to accompany
 you - as that is the season when disease begins
 to prevail here, and I could not well leave home.
 I hope, however, you will go; as I am sure you
 will be gratified - and it will be a salutary re-
 laxation from the severity of your engagements
 at the Academy.  I indulge a hope of making
 a flying visit to West Point, between now and
 harvest; and if I can, I will come before you
 are engaged in the annual examination of the
 Cadets.  I am very desirous to have a peek at your
 collection - and also to become personally acquainted
 with one from whose correspondence I have derived
 so much gratification.  With respect to Dr. Baldwin's
 manuscript journal, I am not particularly solicitous
 to [possess?] it - at least not until you have entirely
 done with it; - though I should be pleased to have
 any additional relic of my friend's  labors in the
 cause of botanical science.  If I get to the Point, as I
 hope, we will converse more fully on that subject.

        