
          indeed, I was in want of hospitality, 7 month had I not slept under a roof, constantly
 exposed to all the changes of weather like a Savage; the hospitality which the
 Jesuits showed to me was scanty and beggarly, readily did I brave 2 feet snow in the mountains
 and the rains of the plains for 10 days and nights, with scarcely anything to eat
 to arrive at a hospitable house of Protestant friends. Rev. Mr Eells and Walker are
 from Massachusetts and since 5 years established at the Spokan River, on the road from Wallah-Wallah 
 to the Nez-percer Mission. Their labors among the Spokan Indians are prodigious
 and they beginn to make progress in civilization and christian devotion. We have divine
 worship every morning and every evening; Rev. Mr Eells and his lady sing excellent and
 Mr Eells guides the singers by playing on the violoncello, Mrs Walker also, a highly
 educated lady sings excellent; and Rev. Mr Walker also is like his Rev. Brother a man
 of high education and social & litterary acquirements. Never could I appreciate company
 more highly than now, never did I feel so much convinced that ruling providence
 guards our steps so parental [crossed out: than] [insert: as] at present.


 From here I shall go on a visit to Fort Colville on the Columbia, being provided
 with a letter of introduction to Governor McLaughlin at Vancouver, I expect special
 recommendations from him to all the Forts of the Hudsonbay Co. In the Spring
 I return to the Skitsowich Ind. [Indians] and pack my collections on my animals; and travel
 slowly down to Vancouver; embark in the month of Septbr [September] for London, from there
 I shall go to Scotland, on a visit to Sir Wm [William] Stuart [Stewart] at Murthly castle; return
 to London, from there to Rotterdam, Antwerpen to Brussels, up the Rhine through
 Germany to Saxony, Austria and to Pisa, to visit the famous Nurseries of Orange
 trees of every variety, from there I return and go back to Scotland to live with
 Sir Stuart and lay out his neglected Parks in pleasure-grounds. I hope that I
 will like Scotland to make it perhaps my home, this however is not yet certain.
 I have now made you acquainted with my future movements, may I also ask the favor
 from you to supply me with a few letters of introduction to England and Scotland? You
 have many correspondents there and especially with men of our profession, this would
 be highly gratifying to me as my acquaintance with them is to be made I should like
 to make it by Your respectable aid. You may if You like entrust me with any orders
 or reports concerning Your business it shall be faithfully complied with by me, not
 alone in England & Scotland but also to any amount on the continent, Holland,
 Belgium, Prussia, Italy any place in Germany and even France I shall visit,
 after my return from Italy. Whatever information You should desire, on any
 agricultural, horticultural or technical Subject, within my comprehension I
 Shall give with all my ability. Great is the progress, which Gardening has made
 in Europe since I left it, but I hope not so great that I should not be able to over
 take it again with my assiduity. Your letters will reach me under the address
 Chas. A Geyer, care of A. M. Storer Esqr No 5. Upper Hyde Park Street, London,
 Mr Storer is an intimate friend of mine with whom I travelled from Missouri to the 
 Rocky Mountains. My collection of Botanical Specimens, which will probably amount
 to 20000 Specimens is destined for Sir Wm Jackson Hooker in Royal Kew Gardens and he will 
 be the only man besides Mr Storer whom I know in London. Now a few words about
 Oregon Territory as far as I have seen it at present. Of late, this territory has attracted much
 the attention of the people of the U. States, by the resolution intoduced to the 27th Congress by
 Mr. Linn of Missouri. The love for change and enterprize of the American people has already
 seduced many hundreds of families to leave the fertile plains of the West for O. territory
 and false reports will induce others to follow, I fear. This is the worst possible change that
 could be made. If the people of Sweden, Finland etc, even the people of Upper Canada
 would emigrate to Oregon, all would be right, but the farmers of the fertile valley of the Mississippi 
 should stay where they are. O. territory is intersected with high mountains down to the
 Shores of  the Pacific; its valleys are narrow; its rivers full of cataract and dangerous for
 navigation, (already have 5 individuals of the emigrants lost their lives in the Columbia).
 the soil is for 9/10 parts sandy or stony, or where valleys are with deep fertile soil, they
 are not sufficiently elevated above high water. For the most part is want of hard timber
 for technical purposes, at least in some parts. Most of the mountains which separate one
 valley from another are inaccessible to other conveyances except pack-animals; those mountains

        