
          Brimfield rocks about this morning, but I
see no Zircon. I am always rabbid by the 
find that calls. How much do you want some Zircon?

I must and will visit your Lyceum
soon. After all your press in [?],
I believe [crossed out: ?] we are better acquainted with geology than you are. And our Gray folks,
I believe, know
more American minerals than
some of you. What a puffing of would have
been made over a locality of thousands
of specimens, on one hill, of a woody plant
30 feet high, so long [crossed out: ?] overlooks
as the Lonicera Hirsuta, had a Yorker
found it. Rafinesque would have made
at least sixteen new genera out of the
Xylosteum solonis, had he first gone into 
the swamp 2 miles east of Williams
College. You are pretty good ballast for these
innovators; but [?] you are a little tainted
with Rafinesquisism.

I am far from being convinced yet,
that you are right above the Schoharicite.
Not one of us is fairly committed in relation 
to that mineral. E. James experimented upon
it with his usual accuracy. He produced the
red flame distinctly from one of its salts. I
certainly produced it from both [?]
        