At home all is quiet.

A virtuous chief magistrate and a wise administration must benefit a people so PRONE TO DOMESTIC FACTION." This gave me the first glimpse of home and its actualities, and the letter was refreshing for the sympathies it expresses, after long months of tugging over portages, and looking about to arrange in the mind stratifications, to gather specimens of minerals, and fresh water shells, and watch the strange antics which have been cut over the whole face of the north-west by the Boulder Group of Rocks.
_Sept_.6.

Mr.C.C.Trowbridge writes from Michilimackinack: "I forward the specimens collected by Mr.Doty and myself, on the tour (from Green Bay, on the north shore, to Michilimackinack).

The most interesting will probably be the organic remains.

They were collected in Little Noquet Bay, on the N.E.side, where ridges of limestone show themselves frequently.