
          and from which we are yet to cull, all
the plants so eagerly sought, on the celebrated
"White Hills"!

The collection I this day send you contains
the results of my labors, and I hope you will
do me an early favor by reporting to me
your experience respecting some few which 
I have not named. The labels will give
you all the information respecting each you may
probably desire. The grasses I am quite uncertain
about, and particularly the two little
soft, velvety evergreens.  I have not any experience
or rather knowledge, of the "White Hill" plants
and in bringing so many at once from the
Mt. [mountain] in our State, makes me particularly embarassed [embarrassed]
in study. Such as I have studied,
I believe I have correctly labeled!

You will find a number of specimens,
indeed common enough, in the suit I send
you of no importance to you except as coming
from Maine! I throw them in, more
on account of their being  fruited specimens,
and I trust well preserved.

I took with me an excellent barometer
and endeavoured to measure the altitude
of the regions I collected in, as well as
to take a correct altitude of the Mt. [mountain]
I confirm Dr. Jackson viz. 5.300 feet
above the level of the Sea! and consequently
        