
          On board the [C Lanulls?], opposite Coxackie
July 12th 1819

Dear friend,

I send you by Moss Kent Esqs.
a little of the Schoharienite. I found this
by accident in [crossed out: all] an old chest, where my
boys had kept a mock-cabinet. You know 
boys will ape thir daddies. The [added: Troy] Lyceum
has not yet replenished their store. Dickinson
received your grass, "with joy [unuttenable?]."

If I had know, that you Yorkers thought 
[stanvotite?] such a wonderful thing, I would
have sent you a wheelbarrow load. I have 
seen ten miles of wall made of [stannnotide?]
in mica-slate in Litchfield, Monson, Brinfield,
Western &c[etc.] are full of it. By the way
[Brisonfield?] (Map) is the best mineralogical
region I ever know If a puffing
Yorker should see it, "the world could not
contain the books" which want be written
about it. I found [adularia?] by the tons there,
molybdena, schonbago, [?] of cobalt,
Zircon &c.[etc.] The most perfect crystals of
Zircon abound in ths stone walls about
Dr. Lincoln's barn yard. (Dr. L. is brother-in-law
to Charlotte E.) The varieties of rock
strata in the most beautiful in Brimfield
of any I ever saw. I have been tumbling my
        