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�June 1/37

Dear Mrs. Eckstorm,

Thanks for [?]. I ran into the [?] meaning, but di dnot dare apply it, [?] should have.

About [?], the [?] spelling is hard to [?], to my mind he was a real scholar. I shouldn't look to him for special implications, that outdoor ones would use: [?] is sometimes better at this. Am thinking of the shallow idea + that sort. Under [?] [?] has several [?] forms, applied to wide bank, thick skins, etc. [?] has [?] for mince.

In type the Lake is a replica of L. St. John [?] the [?], wide, oral: its Indian name [?] often said [?]: means simply shallow lake. L. St. John is held in by granite below the lake some way, + there you get the falls, comparing with [?] fall below [?].

As [?] [?] was last month it was [?] compared with [?] lake of this origin: [?] [?], a larger water, was strikingly brilliant to look into. I talked with a man here who [?] or less[?] at [?]. He acknowledge that it was less clear than others, [?] that the [?] rivers brought in so much silt. The streams were high at my visit, + in