
          of them as you see fit. I would here suggest to you if I did not do so
 in my first letter to visit this country next spring. You would be
 delighted with the journey and would experience little or no difficulty
 or delay in coming the whole distance by Steam boat, from Pittsburgh
 or Wheeling, which are then coming up with stores for the different Posts.
 They generally leave those places from about the 10th to 16th of April and
 arrive here from the 1st to 10th of May. I will guarantee your meeting with
 a most hospitable reception here. To one so ardently attached to pursuits
 in Nat. Hist. [Natural History] as yourself the visit could not fail to be highly interesting
 and amply reward you for time & expense. At that period we have many
 visitors from New York, Phil [Philadelphia] & elsewhere and among them a great proportion
 of ladies who all express themselves highly delighted with the trip.
 In addition to this you would have an opportunity of seeing the different
 bands of Indians who annually assemble here from a considerable distance
 to receive their annuities & presents a sight of whom alone is worth the journey.
 I thank you for sending a Med [medical?] Catalogue altho [although] I have not as yet rec'd [received] it
 and am grieved to hear of the ugly proceedings in old "Barclay." Physic
 in Politicians is much better than Politicians in Physic. In one case it is
 very apt to lessen the heat of their blood in the other increase it. In the latter

        