I have the pleasure of transmitting you the continuation of the Journal of Occurrences & remarks, but not yet the Conclusion, it is perhaps proper that I should make you an apology for its extreme length, as all that is really important might be comprised in a few sheets—my object has been this,—seeing that the late small expedition is prefatory to others of much greater extent & importance, and knowing that in very many particulars the future must resemble the past, I conceived it to be one of the useful purposes of the excursion just completed to collect into one point of view the various incidents small as well great which are to be expected and provided for on any future occasion; I conceived it therefore to be my duty to place before your view many little particulars which tho’ not altogether uninteresting to Goverment, would most undoubtedly appear both prolix & trivial to an ordinary reader: time has not admitted of any attempt to improve or amend, so that it has of necessity been transcribed in its original garb, which it is hoped will be accepted as an apology for imperfections & probably repetitions which are some times unavoidable in a Journal, when the same objects have a 2d or a 3d time presented themselves under different points of view—

It is also proper that I should observe to you that the greatest harmony subsisted between Dor. Hunter & myself; the Doctor is a good & a worthy man, it is however observable that he is of a very warm temper, I found upon the arrival of the boat from new orleans that the Doctor & the Lieut. had not discovered the secret of pleasing each other, most probably the fault of the young Gentleman; this was a sufficient cause for not admitting the Lieut. to be of our party, if a superior reason had not prevailed, that is, not conceiving myself authorized to deprive the service of a commisioned officer.—It would appear that the Doctor’s chemical re[. . .] [ha]ve been generally applied to the Object of making money, I there[fore] [. . .] him in the light of an Excellent practical Metalurgist but not a [min]eralogist this is what he has himself told, in the last particular I failed in obtaining from the Doctor’s knowledge the advantages I had promised myself. I persuade myself that this information will not be received by you as if intended to diminish the Doctor’s merits in your view, far from it I have a high esteem for the Doctor, but I proceed on the principle that it is my duty to make known every particular to You that you may be furnished with data on which to found future expectations. a number of specimens were collected to be taken round by the Doctor in order that you might have the satisfaction of judging of their properties from your own view, the Doctor being arrived at New orleans writes me that Govr. Claiborne had already sent you a number of specimens from the washita collected by a Richard King; from which circumstance the Doctor conceived it to be superfluous to carry you those specimens & left them at N.O. to be sent to me; I am persuaded that mr. King has never thought of collecting any specimen from the hot springs & probably has only sought for metalic or chrysaline specimens, or any thing possessing a shewy appearance. I have therefore requested the Gentleman at N.O. with whom the Doctor left the specimens to forward them to him at Philada. in order that the first intention of presenting them to you may be fulfilled—