
          Recd Oct 21st
Ansd 23rd

Lexington KY Oct 4 1834

My dear Sir:

Since the date of my last letter to you (of 
June 30th) I have been favored with your two 
communications of July 28th and Sept. 10th-- and within a few days
past Mr. Jas. D. Torrey has forwarded from Louisville to me
the parcel of plants mentioned in your last. ----For each 
and all of these favors I beg you to accept my thankful
ackowledgements. The plants afforded me a richer treat
than I have for a long time enjoyed, so great a portion
of them were new to me and all highly interesting. "The Pine
Barrens of New Jersey," from which most of them come, 
must, indeed, be a productive locality, and in comparing 
their plants with those of this neighborhood I am almost 
induced to think that some thousand acres of our luxuriently
fertile region were transformed into the like
sandy wastes.

I regret to be obliged to say that my explorations
this summer have been restricted to narrower limits
than I had in the spring contemplated. Various drawbacks,
and especially the ill health of my own family, have
prevented me from visiting the prairies of Ohio as I had
confidently intended, or the mountainous portions in the
Eastern & S. Eastern sections of the state. But although 
less extensive than I had hoped my herborezations have
been frequent to the distances of 12-20 miles around Lexington.
        