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Whatever the true merits, it would be prima facia a bad circumstance for your reputation to leave that road now in any manner whatever. The obvious and dark-complexion'd fact would fly much faster and farther than the sufficient justifying, and perhaps to you highly creditable circumstances that caused it.

    Still for ought I know the state of the case may be such that you had better pocket the misfortune with fortitude & go on your way rejoicing/ If I understand it rightly Chase is not exceeding his powers he having been duly appointed Chief Eng. N.H. Cent. R.R. and never recall'd. So that the tortuous course of the directors and President has brought them into the difficulty of trying to Serve two Masters. I feel interested in the matter, write me when developements occur. E. Crane & Co. own timber lands and Mills on the Matamascontis.
   We have had Several rain Storms and much wet cloudy weather but no "great rains." Charles's extensive Oat harvest has been  much abshneted by the wet weather they are all out yet mostly raked however. Ann's School closes 20 of this month She expects to start for home about Oct. 1st She wants very much Elian to come out there and come back with her but I suppose he cannot consistently do it 

The plants that you sent were

   Krigia virginica, Dwarf Dandelion one of the smallest of compile plants I have become such a Botanist that I should probably have identified the plant if you had sent me only a single Achenium with its pappus. 
  Epiphegus Virginiana, Beech drops, Cancer root (Orobanche V.) is said to grow almost exclusively on the Roots of Beech trees is destitute of Green foliage
  Polygonum cilinode of "Copses, & Rocky hills Northward." But for