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86 before - particularly a beautiful species of Gaura ^near 5 feet high with very brilliant purple flowers; Lonicera diervilla, Monarda didyma &c. were growing with great luxurience in these lonely woods, doomed to "waste their sweetness on the desert air"

  How much did I not again regret my books; however I collected specimens of all I found, in which the Surveyor General Mr. DeWitt who was also a botanist was so obliging

as to assist) me.

    Mr. Gilbert said that double the quantity of goods came into Wood creek this year as did last year, but owing to this