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Absorption and secretion from a mixture of seventeen free amino acids has been measured in isolated perfused rat small intestine. 2. The absorption rate of an amino acid from this mixture is proportional to its concentration in the perfusate and independent of its chemical constitution. The constant of proportionality is the same as that previously observed when the perfusate contained peptides as well as amino acids. 3. Amino acids are concentrated, on average, sixfold during passage across the mucosa, and the free amino acid composition of the secretion into the tissue fluid is very similar to that of the luminal perfusate. 4. Peptides do not appear to be added to the tissue fluid during absorption of free amino acids. 5. It is concluded that the mechanisms for absorption of free amino acids are in general independent of those for absorption of peptides.