Since the rect your esteemed favor 19th: current I have been constantly looking out for a safe conveyance for the articles you wrote for, & have this moment only succeeded, such is the scarcity of Boats owing to the unusual low state of the river, & which I fear will prevent your recg them for some time—

I have procured the Tongues & Sounds, Crackers, raisins & Shad of superior quality, (as represented by the Grocer, for I am no judge of them) but the Cheese is not of the very best, nor is such to be had in the place, after dilligent search, it is tho’ I believe the best of its kind (Goshen) & certainly superior to any other I could meet with, I hope it will be found to answer tolerably well.—I called at Mr Darmsdatts for the Shad, but find him absent from the City on a visit to the Springs.   These articles are carefully packed, (all but the Shad in an outer Case) & marked, & addressed to the care Archibald Robertson Esqe Lynchburg, & h[o]pe they will reach you safely.

I hop[e] to see you in bedford in the course of [m]y summer’s excursion to the upper [cou]ntry which I commence in a few days.