
          that is a phosphate. It is found in the adjoining
town of Lenox, on brown Hematite, in roundish concretions,
or kind of granulations. To the atomic hypothesis
I have no objection, when it is not applied to analyze
minerals tho' I do not think it a very good test
of an analysis.

By the way, you have not sent
me any Sidero-graphite or Columbium of which
I should be glad.

I hope you will settle your
minerals at Hoboken & other parts of N.J. By the way,
can you not send me some phosphate of iron, & more
chromate of iron in [Turpentine?]. I have only a [?] 
the chromate [tinges?] borax a beautiful [green?] but
I have not enough to form any chromate of lead
from it, as I wish. I need a box of all your minerals
very much my friends have [ridiculed?] me exceedingly  
all your Hoboken minerals, I want much,
so that I may [?] them for others.

I had a letter from Emmons three weeks since
I am glad you have written him for he said he
could [added: get] nothing from you.

Dr. Cooper loves a hot theory of Geology which
makes him a Salamander as you say. How much of
a practical Mineralogist or Geologist, he may be, I
know not tho' he is said to be very practical in other
things. I was glad to see his support of the Huttonian
Theory. I have for sometime been growing doubtful
of Werner's Hypothesis. Cooper gives reason for supposing
that there is not water enough to dissolve the
substances, which are crystallized, even if water would
dissove any of most of them. Consider also that the
earth is 4 1/2 to 5 times as dense as water, & the notion
that the materials of the globe could be [ever/even?]
mixed up as a paste in the water of the globe, is entirely
beyond belief, & the deposition of all the solid matter
from water becomes almost ridiculous. I have 
        