
          which they have presented as their own. Scarcelya
a new subject on geology has been suspected. [Corybeax?]
[added: theory of] Deluvium and Alluvium, which is none passed
off as new, was fully developed as founded on a
letter from Schoolcraft, in my chapter on alluvial 
formations, &c.[etc.] &c.[etc.] two years before any Englishman
thought of it. My analysis of the Lake 
Erie [stratian?] was printed in it; so that it was
in two [added: or] three hundred hand, many months before
any other person had suspected it was not barytes.
Through it I gave the first notice that Catskill
and Allegany Mountains were graywacke. No 
individual in N. York, Philadelphia, [crossed out: ?] N.
Haven or Boston know what graywacke
was, till that amount appeared. on the [added: whole] what
faculty or fascicle of Spur[Spurheim?] has been
so securely confused in your head of late, as
to induce you to suppose I regretted the publication
of that book? Why did I not stop
with one edition? More than eighteen hundred
copies of it have been sold; and there is
nothing to take its place, unless my canal
survey, with its prefixed nomenclature, should
be used. It has already [added: the two editions] yielded me a clear profit of
more than six hundred dollars.

In regard to your flora. It is taken here by
a college Society. I have no doubt it will
sell some where; but it will go slower than
a school book. As soon as students have
made a little headway with cheap books, they
will want yor flora. I was confined at home
last winter several months with a [added: bad] cold and
its consequences [added: did not nothing for you nor for myself]. I am now going along
the canal with two itinerating young
botanists. I shall set them at lecturing

        