
          as occasion may require. As to the starting point
I am willing to leave it to yourself altogether or
if you please come here & we can shape our
course as we may think proper. If however we
start from here & go a southern direction
it would lead us down the Chenango Valley
& would bring us too far west for the
Delaware river but it might perhaps be
as well for then we might go farther
west into a [?] settled country. But 
sir say anywhere only give me notice in
time to meet you, at Kattskill, Delhi
Chenango Point (Binghampton) or Oriskany. The
former place would be the least convenient
the last mentioned the most so. I have travelled
the greater part of the country above mentioned
but mostly in the winter season
but from the face of the country I
think it must be an interesting region 
for Botanizing. Supposing that you are
willing I shall find horse & wagon &
shall make all necessary preparation for
rigging out one as suitable as may be.
I should think we ought to be on the way
by the 10th of next month. But let me know 
        