
          obliged to you where minerals are easily accessible if you would
send me 3 or 4 specimens of such as are rare I have one or 
two European Correspondents to whom I would be glad to forward
a few specimens of our minerals and [crossed out: illegible] the low country
of Carolina affords nothing. In our interior [added: country] mineralogy is
an unknown Science and from it nothing can be obtained.

Paid
Dr. John Torrey
New York

Stephen Elliott
Nov. 21. 1818.

your ammannia I think is certainly not the humilis [Ammannia humilis] and if
it differs sufficiently from the A. ramosior [Ammannia ramosior] which it most resembles
it will form [crossed out: illegible] a new species. I write however without
Books or specimens. Accept my best wishes and assurances of
my regard and Esteem.

S. Elliott
        