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be a Metaphysician, or any thing of kindred anatomy Now I feel an interest in all things, in the Whole Material Universe. from the Granite Mountain, or the hosts of heaven, to the minutest plant, animalcula, or atom in existence: in all God's works from Mightiest to minutest: and also in all the Works of Man, in every thing Material, whether Natural or Artificial.

This is quite an extended "remark"! It was suggested by noticing, as I glanced over your letter, your remarks upon "Anchor ice"; and your comparison of it, as a subject, with that you mention of "kindred Spirits". You stigmatize "Anchor ice" as "dead cold, heartless" well I suppose it is ~ So are all the subjects of my contemplations, labors, and business, Yet I am very much interest in them all. This Subject of Anchor ice is one wherein I am much interested: far more so than in any of your dull, dry speculations upon thoughts & feelings It would have to be very cold windy weather indeed for Anchor ice to get as dry as these last are. 
I have a great mind not to refrain from 'boring' you some more in the Anchor ice topic. You should understand that this ice is not really "adhering" to the bottom. It simply lies there because it is heavier than the Water. There is but one kind that I know of. The question is simply of specific gravity. The obliquity of the crystals depends probably merely on the current. You doubt the fact of the rise of Miller's River from Anchor ice. That fact I have witnessed and know. Why should it not? A broad shallow stream: Water from one to five feet deep only, one, two, three, feet of ice lying on the bottom. Flowing over this, must it not rise? Your surmise of "Mineral solution" is ingenious - but --!

Your inclination to combat some or any of my medicinal or hygeatic opinions, had better be doubled, perhaps spliced.

    There appears at present but little prospect of my going home.