The enclosed letters were written hastily or at past intervals of leasure to draw the public attention to Objects of natural science and internal improvement. One being done at a time when the writer was oppressed with public duties, they were sent to the Editor of a Gazette in this place without transcription & with very little correction. A Bookseller in New York having thought proper to republish them in a volume, they of course contain numerous errors, which I have corrected in the copy herewith transmitted & which you will be so good as to accept and I hope that it may amuse a vacant hour if such ever occurs in your useful life. The information in Page 131 was derived from George Forman then a Member of Congress from this state. you can presume on its correctness