
          Europe, but I have never told you whether they would be 
acceptable. I suppose you consider all your dreams as realities. 
You certainly never wrote me that you had ever
heard of an European [gross?]. I can assure you, they
would be very thankfully received.

As soon as the river opens, you must come to Albany
and go with me to Troy. From the time you set your
foot on the steam-boat dock, until you embark
from the same for home, you will not expend a cent.
Therefore you cannot plead expense. I do not know, that
I shall remain here after the 1st of May. The Troy folks
pressing me hard to remove to that town. I am
also urged to remove to Utica and to Northampton.
But I may remain here after all. I can obtain a 
decent support any where by my preferred occupation;
and it is not an unpleasant course of life. Still I
should prefer a more permanent establishment. I do
not know a person in the world, but myself, who
would become a successful scientific pedlar[peddler]. I
have learned to act in such a polymorphous character,
that I am, to [crossed out: the] men of Science a curiousity,
to ladies a clever schoolmaster, to old women a wizzard[wizard],
to clockguard and boys a show-man and to sage
legislators a very knowing man.

I certainly, however, your sincerely devoted friend,

Amos Eaton.

Dr John Torrey.

Excuse me to Dr. Townsend for not answering his 
last letter. I am sorely such with three lectures each
week to the State Sachems.
        