--Do you
know _Bartram's Travels?_ This is of the Seventies (1770) or so;
treats of _Florida_ chiefly, has a wondrous kind of floundering
eloquence in it; and has also grown immeasurably _old._ All
American libraries ought to provide themselves with that kind of
book; and keep them as a kind of future _biblical_ article.--
Finally on this head, can you tell me of any _good_ Book on
California? Good: I have read several bad. But that too is
worthy of some wonder; that too, like the Old Bucaniers, hungers
and thirsts (in ingenuous minds) to have some true record and
description given of it.
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* Bossu wrote two books which are known to the student of the
history of the settlement of America; one, "Nouveaux Voyages aux
Indes occidentales," Paris, 1768; the other, "Nouveaux Voyages
dans l'Amerique septentrionale," Amsterdam (Paris), 1777.
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And poor Miss Fuller, was there any _Life_ ever published of her?
or is any competent hand engaged on it? Poor Margaret, I often
remember her; and think how she is asleep now under the surges
of the sea.
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