
          The white [?] is a curiosity. Emmons has
found the same exactly to the eye - but melts before
the blowpipe. I have not been able to look at your minerals
with much attention - but I can not yet believe
that Bolton scapolite to be like that mineral I sent 
you. I have seen [?] tremolite in dolomite
so like that, that I do not yet give it up. The only
objection is, it [?] too easily, not into a glass, but
a white enamel, very clear & approaching glass, with
many pores or holes. The truth is it melts with great 
ease, tho' I believe you found the contrary - but I have
melted it several times. Some of your pyroxene I tried,
to compare with some I lately found, & could not [?]
it at all - it was fixed as quartz. And I am inclined
to the belief that in mog. limestone, pyroxene & [?]
approach & run into each other a [?] near [cork?]
[other?] [FOOTNOTE #]. And that thing, can not be zoisite, nor 
[?] an approach towards it. So we agree to 
differ.

Jade? It is probably. I got [?] at Newburgh, &
you will have some from that [?]
by & by, if it has not reached you yet. And
that may be a variety of the same. But I
have been too ill of late to handle the blowpipe, &
may be obliged to give up the [work?] of it entirely.

I got only a few minerals at Newburgh - I saw
[?] Mr. [Abraham] Halsey's & was please much - but I 
did not hear of botany in my talk with him in 
July. I did not [?] your Mr. Halsey. By the way,
do get that book for me, if you pledge your
old [?]. By M.W. you may expect a box
from Mr. Davis & myself. In the mean time,
let me hear of my plants & all things [?].

As ever your friend C. Dewey

# And these analyses do not place them at a great remove
from [cork?] [other?]. 
        