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Journal 1827
A little rain this morning
it was followed by a dark gloomy
wether [weather] which Mrs. Henry said was
the port tunner of our earthquake
but the earth did not quake
Nov 13 I sent my discription [description] of
the Louisville of Portland canal
to Profes. Silliman today it was
accompanied by a map, and a figure
of the crane.
Nov 21 Wednesday. Mrs. Henry wrote a
letter to Collins Chapman for; after
copying it into the book of records
I went up the canal and witnessed
an experiment made in the excava
tion of earth on the plan of Mr.
Oliver Phelps of the Welland Canal.
It is described by D. Lapham in
the following words: "His machine is
simply a wheel placed on the bank,
the axis of which is at right angles

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Journal 1827
with [illegible] roads down the bank, and
a railway of timber is placed for the wheels
to run on in going up the slope furnished
with a rope and a hook at each end
when a team is loaded in the canal the
hook is made fast to the tongue of the wagon
and an empty team is coming in at the
same time and the rope is made fast on
the hind end of the wagon going down. The
empty team draws the loaded one up.
Likewise the team going up draws the same
as before without the machine."
We take out of the canal of 35 feet
perpendicular height, on a slope of one or
three fourths to one, one half of a cubic
yard of earth to each load; with a
cart and one yoke of oxen, aggreeable [agreeable]
to experiment made while was up the
canal this morning. The number of
lodes [loads] taken out in a day will be counted
soon.