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Tuesday Sep 2d. In the night, last, the wind from the N.W. raised and
become very cold and it has continued to blow all day; so that we were
obliged to keep a fire [p. 118] towards evening, in the bar room.
Q[uestion]. do the people of N.Y. build fire as early as the first of sept?

I was at work on the canal part of the time.

Wednesday Sep 3. I helped Mr. Henry on the canal part of the time
in the afternoon. In the forenoon I went up the canal and returned in
the rain.

Thursday. Mr. Henry went to Knob Creek on business and I had some
work to do on the canal which lasted all the forenoon. In the after-
noon I went up the canal, and returned [p. 119] by way of the River
bank and collected shells for C White. After supper I went to Louisville
to a book auction but the book which I intended to get went to high for
my pecuniary situation. It was Barton’s Flora, and went at 10 1/2 dollars.
I got back about 10 o'clock, PM.

Friday. In the forenoon I assisted Mr. Henry in making out his report
estimate &c. and in the afternoon after doing a little work on the canal,
I got a skiff and rowed over the river to Clark's point via, the point
[p. 120] of Gravel Island.

Saturday Sept 6th. I worked on the canal in the forenoon And in the
afternoon I went to Louisville to put some letters in the Post Office.
I went into the shop of Dr. Rogers ¹¹⁸ who gave me a piece of a petrified
tree which he said was found in the Bituminous shale near New Albany
Ia. and a piece of asbestos which he said was from Missouri, probably
from the Lead mines as there are small points of galena attached to it.
He also loaned me the first Edition of Cleavelands [p. 121] Miner-
alogy¹¹⁹ for a month, and I shall spend my leisure time in reading it.

Sunday 7. I worked on the lock all the forenoon. Carney Sayre & co
laid the lower miter-sill and I assisted in finding its exact situation. In
the afternoon I went on Goose Island, but found no specimens of im-
portance.

Monday 8. A Rainy day. I worked in the office copying the contract
between the L & P Canal Co and Carney Sayre & co. the [p. 122]
builders of the Lock and Bridge.¹²⁰

Tuesday. 9. I worked on the canal nearly all the time today, received a
letter from Darius, Dated Sept. 1st 1828.¹²¹

(To Be Continued)

FOOTNOTES
⁶⁹The new 167-page journal for 11 April to 31 October 1828 is endorsed "Laphami-
cal Ephemenis," on p. 2.

⁷⁰William Baldwin, M.D. [1779-1819] b
orn Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1807.