6 rank green. The sod in general all through Dakota Min Wis is now green without a hint of drouth. So far not one hot day
has been encountered since leaving Oregon now I m feeling pretty well though rather weak lanquid. I mean to stop with mother
about ten or twelve days. Then go to Fountain Lake one day to see the lilies that used to charm me when a boy, the Calopoyons
Cyprep illegible Osmundas - a few of the old settlers who used to care for me lend me books especially Mr Duncan a Scotch
Mason who still remembers me. Then on to Kansas City Crete perhaps spending a week in the two places. I should like to spend
a few weeks about the Lake Region to learn the glacial inscriptions recorded there but that would throw all the labor of shipping
the muscats