
          when I left America, for the older missionaries,
 here either from pressure of other
 engagements, or from sympathy with the 
 natives, or perhaps from both, an no entomologists.
 Even [Hutchings?], if not semper
 lous is a little reluctant. Now if you
 can give me for the natives a satisfactory
 reason, perhaps by the time I have
 been on the Coast five Years, I may
 send you some specimens.


 The Mohammedans are bird catchers
 & the Coast men of the lowest
 Cust [Caste] sometimes bring us shells. I think
 I may get of these. As for mineralogical 
 & other specimens, the peninsula
 is very much made  [?] of Iron & Sand
 and in its fruitless, unproductive wastes much
 resembles the more barren fronts of the country
 on the Phild [Philadelphia] & Trenton Rail Rd [Road] Route.
 The regions of the plains 20 or 30 miles from 
 the foot of the mountains, & some in the intervening
 valleys is very fertile. The Soil
        