
          in the very face of public reproach. I feel
under greater obligation to him, than to
all others.

Since commencement (the 3d Sept.) I have
used the primitive range from Hojack Mt.
[?] river in three places, and traveled in
zigzag lines, so that I am now master
of every material fact. I took geometrical
surveys in every part, and have sketched a 
geological map of the whole country [added: 15 miles in breadth]. Several
of my students accompanied me for one
week. Many of them reside in these regions, so
that in traveling more than 200 miles
I spent but 3 dollars. I particularly examined
the Chesterfield and Goshen works and
Southampton mines etc. I found the [?]
cornuta in great abundance in [?] pond in
Plainfield Mts. also several other plants, as
Andromeda polifolia, Kalmia glauca [polifolia] etc. and
one [crossed out: plant][added: [aqautia?]] of the 5th [?] which I do not know.
It has a single cordate leaf, floating like the 
Hydropeltis purpurea and growing with it. The
flowers come out in a fascicule a little before the
leaf, and have a [?] of spores opposite to them.
I have not looked much for a description because
I left all my specimens at Plainfield to be brought
to me by Wm. A Hallock.

        