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The genus [?????], verily, is divided into many very
distinct varieties capable of being assimilated by
very artificial means, without which however, how widely
sundered * * Alas for poor Capt Brown his troubles
cease not with his departure hence, a writ & attach-
ment has stopped him & turned him aside to Marianna
his son Matthew came over at dinner time for Hugh Rusk
They both were detained by waiting for a third person, till
supper time, when they left, three country gentlemen took
supper here; a Mr Allen from Tallahassee dined today here
a nice looking man. I wrote a letter to Thaddy by Rusk
a short one -- Called in after supper, to see Mrs R. about
her infirmities Studied much in the subject --
Manufactured [copaives] copaiva pills --

Sunday Dec 10th Date of my first professional
call --; the rain, so long pending, set in today --
I spent a quiet Sabbath at home -- reading my Bible
Pollok's "Course of Time" -- Abercrombie's hints for proper reg-
ulation of the mind wrote a letter to Betty in the
a mild gleam of sunshine -- returned & wrote to Miss Mary.
read in Scott's Commentaries -- Took up H. K. White's poems
& my pipe, & lay down for a quiet, easy smoke --
Smoked too much, or my system becomes more impressible
for I smoked comfortably, after breakfast, before walking to
the Port; how sick I did get -- Farewell to my
meerschaum -- I would'nt risk that horrible nausea
again for all the short cut ever manufactured --, I
drank water largely to relieve it, sweated it out imme-
diately & rapidly and eat a hearty supper; which
was hardly swallowed ere I recd summons to go in haste to
Wood's place, 5 miles hence, to the relief of a negro woman
who was very bad off almost dying -- I hurried off
galloped the whole way, the roads very full of water