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Correct some bras weights while I was
there

Saturday Oct 13 D. S. Bates arrived
from Ohio to day but I have not seen
him yet.

Wed 16 W took the levels on
the canal for nearly the whole
length to day with Mr.
Bates principal engineer.

Wenn Oct 19 A verry heavy fog
this morning. Mr Henry and
John Bates went to Knob Creek
To dat to measure stone &c.

Friday 19. Oct Went to Louisville
to carry the reports; gave them to
Judge Bates and received $20 for
John Bates. I bought a Pen Knife
while I was there.

Saturday 20 Oct Made out
my Bill of Services against
Judge Bates and gave it to

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John Bates who said he would present
it to him. It's amount to Day is
$188. This afternoon I went to
Louisville to see Judge Bates. and came
back in the rain! (curious)

Mr. Henry from Rochester visited
the Niagara falls as he came here
he has made the following remark " The [semiry?] of
these falls is the best calculated to
give a man an idea of the superior
works of nature and of his own
inferiority of any place he had before seen"

Monday 22d Oct. A rainy day the same
last night done considerable damage on
the canal

Tuesday 23 Oct Judge Bates left Louis-
vill for Concinatte. Share received
from him$170 which is the amount of my wages up to this date.