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is 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 & it will be seen by my letters & all my account of it in my book. I have chose to call it by its Indian name "wife stone" as he chooses, and in that will no doubt have per?? ased his envious feelings. as for his apertion that "I was not the first white man who ever visited it" I think he is right as to the matter of fact, but puffijish? as to the ground upon which he has taken the liberty to brand me as a liar - for I never reported? (until by a misprint of my words) that I was the first white man who met them but on the contrary, always in my letters spoke of Mous. Lopombaise who practicly escorted us there & who had been there on former occasions. A simmilar announcement to this was made by a fur trader (a seller of whiskey & buyer of muskrat skins) in one of the Cincinnati papers not long since, which you may have seen, & which you will see in a few days answered in the same journal, and you will here see, (& I think you can by this time surely? why I have been this studiously impeached lain 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 les? malignant materia for impeaching me than they have & 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 representations. These people you will see have called me a liar for having said I was arested by the Sioux on my way to the Red pipe, look at my account in my book, & enquire of Mr. Nood?, who was my companion. G