
          It is in the same range with the Salisbury
ore and of the very same kind of ore. Though
there is more granular limestone in its immediate
vicinity. You must compliment Emmons' 
industry in searching it out. When
he attended my lectures at Williamtown
he was the best hunter in botany and mineralogy
I had.

You may say, that BEck and I discovered this native Epsom salt, though he 
was not with me. But he was about 2
or 3 hundred feet before me; and the only reason
he was not with me was, that he
was afraid to climb the rocks where I found
it. A young man, Van Ohinda, a very clever
fellow [added: and a Dutch surveyor] helped me bring down a large basket
full of the water limestone, sulphate of iron,
sulphuret of iron, sulphate of lime, sulphate
of alumine, [added: crystals of carbonate of lime in geodes] and ferruginous quartz, together
with the sulphate of magnesia. But we could
not bring much of each.

We found a few relics, which I had never
seen before. But we found so few, that we shall
be obliged to leave them all in the Agricultural
Society's collection. We found one Nerite, two
Buccinites and a few branches of an Arbo-Mar-reforite.

I saw thousands of beautiful acriulr crystals
of the Epsom salt; but it is almost impossible
to bring them home uninjured. We have several
other things under examination; but we shall
not decide upon them until next week.

Put the label, which I enclosed, in with
the specimen you send to Col. Gibbs.
        