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W. Kinsey diary, 1817.

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called Flause, & many beautiful farms, & habitations of vine-dressers. The environs of these richly-coated hill are beyond description enchantingly beautiful. Geisenheim on the same side makes a superb appearance with its hilly grounds adorned with gardens, country houses, & vineyards; nor is Rudesheim inferior in Beauty. Here in the centre of the stream we looked back upon our course, & saw the whole line of beautiful Islands, which we had passed, & on the night downwards, black & deep gulph with high-towering rocks above crowned with an ancient Castle, & thro wh: the river forces its passage. One the left the [?] is seen fall- -ing down its waters to Burgen to unite them with the Rhine. Bingen stands at the foot of the Mountain Klopp not far from which rises that St Rock, & to the right Rupertsberg with the ruins of an ancient Convent. The scene before us was closed by the steep rocks hilly near the mouth of the [?], & upon both sides of the Rhine, for - - ming a gulph, which seemed to swallow up the river. Charlemagne having discovered from his palace of Ingelheim, that the snow melted sooner upon [?] of Rüdesheim, than all the others, brought there the grapes from Burgundy, & Orleans, & they are to this day called Plänner, or the grapes of Orleans. On the left bank opposite Rüdesheim is situated Bingen. On the Right the Mt Rüdesheim towers into the clouds, & at the point where the noe winds round the Mts covered with woods, under whose deep shade is the dark gulph of Bingerlock - &

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power of the French having been wrested from them, by the Germans, after their capture of it in 1791 - & in 1814 was restored to Germany again - of the bombardement by the Germans the most lamentable attentions are the destractions of the

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Journal of a tour to the West in 1839: diary, 1839.

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2. of our holy religion, hold seats in our ecclesiastical conventions & exercise as they too often do a controlling influence over the measures in which the [we?] of XTo spiritual kingdom are most deeply involved? The adopt -ion of a canon to exclude all but communicants from the office of delegates to conventions as has been done in [[Virginia]] & [[Ohio]], would probably have a [decl?ting] in -fluence in the Diocese of [[Maryland]]. Tho: alas! This would not be a per -fect remedy for the roil for some of the most embittered foes of evangelical religion are con -[?ants] having a form of god -liness beset denying the power therof!

We arrived at [[Fredrick]] about 9 O'clock, & dropped at the city Hotel. I was glad to find our inquiry of the Landlord that [[Wm Owings]], who had

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been stabbed by John Ridgely 3. was entirely [illegible] of danger to be walking about quickly. On enter -ing the stage coach after sup -per, I was happy to find [illegible] there passengers besides myself, all intelligent & agreeable gentle -men. With one of them we parted company at Hagarstown about 2 O'clock in the morning the others Wm Wheeler merchant of [illegible] just returned from Eur -ope in the Great Western Lt [B?] of New Orleans, were my sole stage companions to Wheeling & the latter accom -pandied me to Cincinnatti Passing on at a rapid rate through Clear Spring & over the south mountains, & along the banks of the [illegible] & Ohio canal, we arrived to breakfast at [Hancock?] about 6 O'clock in the morning

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4. of Tuesday 24th. At Han -cock, Recd [Received] Mr. Delaplaine tr [???????] [??????] one of his parishoners [????] [and?] receive no compensation for my breakfast[ed?]. We here entered upon the [mountain??? ?????]

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6. & his mother, visited the glass works, steam boats ( ). The process of manufacturing the flint & pewter glass is very interesting, & Hibe br A informs me are the only works in the R. S. now in operation when that kind of glass is manufactured. The Episcopal church in (White ing) is a very (chaste) Grecian examples - but almost the only building in the place worthy of remark. At (Whit ing) I was advised to go in the Col Woods Steamerboat , advertised to sail in the course of that day. And here I may mention an illustration of the uncertainty of travelling on the Western waters, that it was well for me I did not, as the Col Woods I'd not reach Louis ville till the day after the (conpenation).

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hogs of from 16 to 20 grand of ( ) age. They are good ( ), & become very much attached to this mode of life, the ( ) & receive $12 pr month, the dinner table was furnish ed with decanters of brandy & gin after the old fashion of the Eastern boats - & wine upon the part of the table allotted to the Ladies. In this & all the boats there is much card playing by day & night till 10 o'clock - but little gambling as far as I observed. We had a singular ( ) & officious character on board Col Evans of Cincinnatiwho keeps a splendid clothing & fancy store in that city. He is a great talker - & stutters enough to make his speeches exceedingly ludicrous. We often got (aground) upon

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upon said band & the Col was then very officious in giving his orders to the company to mount the hurricane deck & (sock) her off. On Friday we send on board as (Ju ) a mod( ) -ats Kentuckian - who must be related I think to the Kentucky giant- being about 6 feet five inches- & large in proportion, I should think he ( ) weight 350 lbs. He had a (_____) inscribed with his ( ), about three inches in diameter it ( ) do no ( ) to H( ). Soon after he was comfor -table seated by the fire, the boat gout agrouond- & Col Evants ( ) to that part of the cabin, stammered out the exclamation "came (,La fdom) we want you to lift off the Boat"!

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14. between Wheeling & Cincinnati are Portsmonth on Ohio & Louysville Ky. [Kentucky] The former is at the mouth of the great canal which [Dr?] [Dr?] the centre of the state to [Dr?] [Dr?] connecting the waters of Lake Erie with those of the Ohio. The latter is the starting point of the [Dr?] [Dr?] of great excellence [Dr?] [Dr?] a most rich & [and]beautiful country to [Dr?] [Dr?]. It is a pretty town of 5 or 6000 inhabitants I [Dr?] think & [and] [Dr?] to it is [Dr?], Ohio.

At Louysville [Dr?] [Dr?] an interesting young lady daughter of the late cashier of the Bank in Lexington, [Dr?] from us by her I [Dr?] [Dr?] to [Dr?] [Dr?] informing him that I was thus far on my way [Dr?] [Dr?]

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Mary Emma Jocelyn diary, 1851-1852.

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Little book, enlivened of many a pleasant solitary hour these pages are full and [are?] our days of companionship draws near to a close. We must part and on other leaves must be inscribed the future waymarks on the path of time.

The task of many days is done, & of each one since the commencement of the present years is herein inscribed some brief record that the many little incidents the pleasures and the griefs of my youth might not be entirely forgotten and that in coming years I might have this to read perhaps at times and recall the thoughts and feelings of earlier days have I written what to other eyes might seem trifling and foolish. For my own improvement and, for my own pleasure solely it was written, - a selfish object truly - but I have wished no one to read it but myself and it still is a treasure sacred to myself and so let it remain. How could I write freely

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