
          (on my [crossed out: account] [written above: part]) was that I could not obtain to peruse at least
 a part of it to form an idea of its contents. The few
 packages that I was allowed to open, were in the most
 miserable state, and named with the most barbarous appaltions,
 and, besides, the species to numerously extended that I 
 was disgusted with the idea even of opening other parcels.


 At last after [added: suffering] extensive damage, I was forced, as it were
 to take it for a small sum and I assure you very reluctantly.
 I have spent three weeks to clean it, to desperate and throw
 in the scavangers cart about one half of it; change the
 greatest part of the papers, &c. &c. [etc] Such that you cannout
 imagine; but in that dang-hill there are a great number of 
 precious pearls which will amply repay all my troubles.


 This famous collection was divided in the two parts; his herbarium
 proper and his duplicates. The last contains a great number
 of beautiful specimens from Drs Short, Riddles, Wrage 
 & others, and the greatest part collected by him in this neighborhood
 , among out most common plants and not [added: above] 300 species
 in all. The first part contains all the herbarium of collius,
 and Balwin, his own Kentucky plants; [?] number
 of exotics, many plants marked Texas, which I suspect
 are mexican and only supposed to grow also in the
 near Republic; and some marked labrador and oregon
 which I am also strongly indicated to consider alpine
 European plants, become the labble is in a german
 or french hand, with the locality Oregon marked with
 his own fear.
        