
          I put [added: in] a Cayuga Lake specimen of Hippuris.
I examined hundreds and found all had about 10 leaves
in a whorl. Should it not be variety [decassysla?]?

The rock part of my Canal survey is in
the press, and the engravers are at the plate. I give
a profile of rock, four and a half feet long. I extend
it from the Atlantic to Lake Erie. I suppose I shall
set all the Boston fools at scribbling again. How contemptible
those reviews are which are written by [crossed out: those] [added: persons] who know
nothing of the subject of the book reviewed. I challenge
all correct geologists upon the accuracy of the survey.
But those, who have no reputation to lose, are lawless.
I have bcome acquainted with almost every individual fragment
of rock, creek bank, and hillock in the canal line.
I travelled with my one horse wagon and boy more
than three thousand miles last summer.

The first of the monthh I go to Amhert College
again, to give them another [howling?]. I shall then be
near the land of your head man of weeds, Cooley. Who
is this Cooley, that takes such a lead in Torrey's book,
is the general enquiry.

Remember one thing, that is, not to cite as
your weed-pullers, any fellow, up this way, who sets
any value on himself. In questionable cases, where
Scientific knowledge would be a pre-requisite, no on e
would object to being referred to. But to hold up a decent
man as your country drudge, to fetch and carry
weeds, will not perhaps be as acceptable as you imagine.
You know this was the way you treated Emmons. 
[added: about the mineral] You have been well scoured by the Berkshirites
for that. Don't think, I set it on sort. I
scolded you; but twisted [added: your] words and distorted common
sense, to all but Dewey, in order to smooth the matter,
and made bungling work of it after all. 
        