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it within 6 or 8 inches of the surface. As to the "honour" of having this mineral called "Catlinite" which he says "he thinks I do not deserve", I am quite sure I never claimed and it will be seen by my letters and all my account of it in my Book, I have chose to call it by its Indian name "pipe stone", as he chooses, and in that will no doubt have pleased his envious feelings-as for his assertion that "I was not the first white man who ever visited it" I think he is right as to the matter of fact, but puppyish as to the ground upon which he has taken the liberty to brand me as a liar--for I never asserted (unless by a misprint of my words) that I was the first white man who went there, but on the contrary, always in my letters spoke of Mons. Lafrombaise who politely escorted us there and who had been there on former occasions, A similar announcement to this was made by a fur trader (a seller of whiskey and buyer of muskrat skins) in one of the Cincinnati papers not long since, which you may have seen, and which you will see in a few days answered in the same journal, and you will there see, (and I think you care by this time unclear) why I have been this studiously impeached?unclear just before my expose of the transactions of that Western country are coming out to the world - I hope your young friend has a more harmless and less malignant motive for impeaching me than they have and hope also that he has got something better to stand on than hearsay from them, though I fear he has based his charges solely upon their reputations. These people you will see have called me a liar for having said I was arrested by the Sioux on my way to the Red pipe, look at my account in my book, and inquire of Mr. unclear, who was my companion and