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[illegible] I am aware that you will lose the profits of my wages
while at college, but can not this be repaid? Or can it not be
arranged in some way so as not to prevent my going if Mr. White
should succeed in getting me in at Yale? ********

Please let me hear from you soon. ********

Your affectionate son,

Seneca Lapham. Increase A. Lapham.

April 3. ******After finishing work on the canal I went over to
Rock Island to get some shells for Mr. White, found specimens of
two genera, anodonta and alasmodonta, which I had not before seen
here.
April 5. Went to the Presbyterian church this morning, after which
I dined with Mr. Mann Butler and spent a few hours with him.
April 6. [illegible] [Dr?] Fitch lent me one number of Transylvannian
Journal of Medicine, containing the first part of Dr. Short's "Flo-
rula Lexingtoniensis". This was particularly acceptable as I have
no work of Botany by me.

As I came down I took a route which I often traveled
last spring, along the edge of the woods, discovered only one plant
in flower besides those already mentioned.

The weather is fine though rather windy. The river which
has been down tolerably low is now rising quite rapidly again.
April 8. Rainy day. ***** Light thunder and lightning once or
twice during the day for the first time this season.
April 9. Another rainy day. This morning I went to the woods south
of this place in search of plants in flower, succeeded in finding
one new one [pencil note left - see notebook 1828 p.9 for omissions?]
April 10. Still raining. [illegible] Work on the canal much interrupted
by high water in the river , which is now as high as it has been
this spring and is rising rapidly.
April 11 Did some work at the bridge, drew a plan-106 - 1829.

the Louisville "Exchange", a public house proposed to be built at
Louisville. Weather continues the same as yesterday, being of that
description which is rather peculiar to March than April, cold,
windy with broken clouds passing rapidly, discharging now and then
slight showers, between which we will perhaps have a short interval
of sunshine. The river commenced falling at noon.

April 15. Heavy frost last night.

April 17. Smoky. Borrowed Malte Brun's geography and read in it.
River continues very high, about three feet above the bottom of
the guard lock.

April 18. * * * Weather this morning was cloudy with light showers.
* * * It cleared off at noon, was oppressively warm. Went to the
woods in search of flowers.
[handwritten note appears to left of above three lines: see notebook 1828
& 9 for omissions]

The extreme heat indicated, I thought, some severe
storm and in this I was not disappointed, about ten o'clock the
heavens blackened with thick clouds and the wind arose, the most
vivid flashes of lightning, I think, I ever saw accompanied by the
most dreadful thunder awoke me. The wind continued to roar, the
lightning increased to one continuous sound. Now the rain commenc-
ed falling, not as usual in drops, but apparently in one solid mass
of water which materially checked the violence of the wind. No
material damage was done to any of the houses except a small room
(which Mr. D'Etiste had built on his porch for a bed-room in sum-
mer) was entirely blown down, it stood directly opposite the win-
dow at which I slept.

April 27. River ceased rising to day and will probably fall soon.
* * * Mr. Berthoud, the postmaster of this place, had been absent
about a week last Saturday, during which time no mail arrived here!
When it did come I got letters from home and Silliman's Journal.*** of a house for]

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