
          I must now thank you heartily 
for the books you have 
sent me both by your kind
Daughter & just now by our
friend Gray. Marcy's Report
with Maps & the Explorations
& Surveys for a Rail-road route
to the Pacific. I confess I
take a great interest in all
these Reports & the more
so as I profess, thanks to my
American friends, so many
of the plants gathered on these
routes. The plates & maps
of this last vol. will I am sure
be very interesting & the more
[?] of the exploration. It
cannot be expected where so
many different persons are
employed they should be all 
alike in quality. Benchembridge's

        