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call it Vircum, it differs from all others by being moical &
triandrous. Pray have you more than one species with you.

You have heard of our new Medical School. The Lectures have lately
begun, and mine also on Natural History of Botany.

Ms Clifford has found this Summer a great quantity of new fossils,
pray are any found in your neighborhood? What are the fishes of your
brooks? your land & water shells. What Snakes & Lizards hav you
in the Barrens.

If you send me some account of your Natural Curiousities, I may
if you like, communicate them to our Literary Club & publish them in
the Western Review & Magazine.

Have you any Indian Monuments in your vicinity & which? We
have just discovered 2 1/2 miles East of Lexington, an ancient Town
of the Alleghanee Nation, surrounded by and earthen wall & an outside
ditch, it is 2 miles in Circumference & of an irregular shape.

Mr Clifford is now writing on that subject, he has proved that many
of those ancient monuments were Temples; but some were also Forts,
Towns, Sepulchral Monuments &. He thinks that the Alleghanee
Nation was one of the Mexican tribes, & originary from India, which is
likely enough. The name of the Alleghanee was given by the Lenape
Indians to the Nation inhabiting formerly the Western States & which
they drove away, as [Heckenvelder?] has lately disclosed.

Pray, command me freely, in return for the favours I crave
from you. Your first fascicular of Plants was so acceptable, that I
long to see another. I want particularly Vernal plants, as I have
not visited the Barrens nor indeed the West. States in the Spring
or at least in May, except near Pittsburgh.

Have you seen Nuttall's Work. It is a good one, but has some
blemishes. I wrote a long review of it, with corrections & I have one
to spare for you, if you should wish to have it.