
          little start,and I hope to have better times.
I have made Eaton a visit for a few hours
lately and had some [fine?] gossip on various things.
He showed me [Briccia crystallina?:this name was underlined] as he says he calls it 
in the new [Man..?]- but it is R.trisulca, if I am 
not much mistaken. With him I saw [Hidyotis glome]
[sota?], which I [bugged?] for so [word has ink smeared] of you.  We had  called
it Hypursium poriplorum, and I do not know that this 
H. is here-I now think, however, that the two have
been confounded. [note large blank space was left here] If you have [seen?] [Loton's?] [Geology?]
of [Hunnslaer Co.?], you see some new notions on
the works over which I now sit.  He calls them transition
and [makes the Facomick Roger intently seponted?]
[grologically?] from the hills west of us , and so on. If
this be time the [marble of Lanisboro'],with which you
are familiar, is transition- as also W. Stockbridge
[Marble]. He acknowledges that this [argilliti h..ss]
is [very?] diffle. from that at Troy, and yet will have
both {caret with the words to be inserted] transition. His trouble about the [note this word is underlined:plan] of Argilliti
in the system is the [cause?] of all this. I can not think
with him that [Bohwell's?] [reasons?] for removing all
argilliti to the Transition [clop?] on [note the words at all are crossed out and the word wholly is above it] conclusive.
Certainly, then is argilliti cost of us [cor...with g...s?]
and mica slate, and so [con..?] as to cause us to [?] that
notion. And instead of the W. ronger of Hills bring
all argilliti as he says, it seems to me that mica
slate is [?] to be found there. He [spoke?] too of
the Gray works bring [placed?] on the argilliti in [Rump-?]
lour Co., as if it [own?] [conditions?] by the[latter?], and the 
[latter?] [underlined:capped] by it. Now the in [linotion?] of the Gray
works is similair to that of the argillitti, and when I have
all Argilliti as he says, it seems to me that mica
slate is [...ly?] to be found there. He speaks too of
the Grey works [ being?] [placed?] on the argilliti in [Rumplour Co.?],
as if it  [...? undtoid?] by the lottu and the 
[latter?] capped by it. Now the in [?] of the Grey 
Works is similiar to that of the argelliti and when I have
        