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Line is completed, to make a large collection.

The country is rough, rugged and mountainous, with many swamps. The Indians are few, and in the interior, are inoffensive. It is a very hard section of country to carry the line through.

I hope that you are once again comfortably settled at the Smithsonian, and that you still enjoy health and strength sufficient to successfully sustain you in the discharge of your arduous duties.

I remain sincerely yours

Henry W. Elliott.