Sam[ue]l L. Mitchill ALS, mutilated to [Catharine] Mitchill, March 8, 1802

a physician. We then went to hear Mr. Austin preach.
The place was the room where the dancing Assemblies
are usually held. The Audience was Small & select.
He held forth without Bible or Notes, and gave a Dis-
course that surprised almost every one who heard
him. His mind is as far from steadiness as it has been
for a number of years. He is quite as full of Visions,
fulfillment of Prophecies, and interpretations of the
recondite parts of Scripture as ever. And yet in this
enthusiastic flighty and incoherent state of mind, he
possesses great powers of enunciation, well-applied ges-
-tures, and some of the most vivid sallies of thought that
were almost every employed by a preacher. His person
and figure are good, and his imagination distracted
as it is, abounds with a variety of imagery & metaphors.

I shall send you his last publication here, called
the "National Barley-Cake." It will amuse you as a No-
-velty. Show it to Mamma, that she may know what Austin
is about. He carried it about from Boarding-house to
boarding house and sollicited the Gentlemen to buy it. In
this manner I became possessed of one. I have divide it
into two parts, to bring it below two ounces, beyond which
we are not allowed to frank. You can easily stitch the parts
together