
          Johnson was kind to me 
 at Durham: & [forward?] your letter 
 I [have?], I called on him, took
 him to Academy meeting, heard 
 his first lecture, all on 
 Physical Geography, & very full 
 of mistakes & gross exaggerations 
 which were worse. I overhauled 
 him a little, as you anticipated, 
 & found he knows less about the 
 matter than I supposed. Indeed 
 he confessed it was not his forte, 
 promised to correct many things 
 in his afternoon's lecture. But 
 Guyot, who heard that, says it 
 was awful bad! The difficulty
 is that he thinks anything will
 do for the Yankees! He is 
 well-meaning, & will do very well 
 when he lectures on subjects he 
 may happen to understand. 
 The last time I saw him 
 I took him the newspaper report
        