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He moved to Georgia because of poor health and studied botany. Following an expedi-
tion to South America, he was appointed botanist-surgeon for Long's Missouri expedition
(see fn. 29) on which he died. Because Dr. Baldwin was the official botanist, Lapham
attributes the species names in James' account of the expedition (fn. 29) to him.

⁷¹This instrument was extensively used by mariners and surveyors in the 18th and
early 19th centuries to determine the altitude of clestial bodies. Although John Hadley
[1682-1744], a British genius and mechanician, first described his instrument to the
Royal Society in 1731, Thomas Godfrey [d. 1749], a friend of Benjamin Franklin and
self-educated glazier of Philadelphia, independently devised the same instrument but did
not describe it to the Royal Society until 1734.

⁷²Lapham may have meant James Geddes [1763-1838], one of the most experienced
canal engineers in America, who had been hired on the Welland Canal to assist Alfred
Barrett the resident engineer.

⁷³Shadrack Penn [1790-1846], a Maryland native, moved to central Kentucky where
he gained notice as a political journalist. As editor of the Louisville Public Advertiser
he supported Jackson instead of Clay and worked for the former in Washington. He
later moved to St. Louis and established (1841) the Missouri Reporter which he edited
until his death in a railroad accident. Henry McMurtrie's Sketches of Louisville and Its
Environs was published in Louisville in 1819, printed by Shadrack Penn. For further
information see, Samuel W. Thomas and Eugene H. Conner, "Henry McMurtrie, M.D.
[1793-1865]: First Historian and Promoter of Louisville," The Filson Club History
Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4 (1969), pp. 311-324.

⁷⁴The Hope Distillery, located about 15th Street and Portland Avenue was built about
1817, but in 1826, only a large deserted brick structure remained of the once thriving
operation described by Henry McMurtrie, Sketches of Louisville (1819), reprint edition.
G. R. Clark Press, Louisville, 1969, pp. 127-130.

⁷⁵This museum was founded in 1818 and continued until 1839 under the director-
ship of the scientist, Joseph Dorfeuille [1791?-1849]. John James Audubon was em-
ployed by the museum as a taxidermist and painter in 1819.

⁷⁶Benjamin Sayre in partnership with Peter Carney was the contractor for the bridge
over the Canal.

⁷⁷Canvass White [1790-1834], born in New York, was a merchant sailor prior to
taking part in the War of 1812. He was an assistant to Benjamin Wright on the Erie
Canal after 1818 and later visited England under the auspices of Governor DeWitt Clin-
ton to study canal construction. As the foremost designer of canal locks, he patented
waterproof cement which allowed masonry construction of locks. Before retiring in 1826,
White had been chief engineer for the Delaware and Raritan, Lehigh, and Union Canals.
In late 1828, White was requested by the Philadelphia stockholders to assume superin-
tendence of the Louisville Canal work which he agreed to do for $10,000 on comple-
tion. Resolution of Philadelphia stockholders, 27 October 1828. Copy in Canvass White
MMS., Cornell University Library, Ithaca. Although he made subsequent trips to Louis-
ville and had a great influence on the Canal's construction, he did not assume the posi-
tion evidently because of poor health.

⁷⁸John Douglass [1787-1851] learned the printing business in his native Pennsylvania
moving to Indiana in 1820 to print newspapers in Vevay, Madison, and Corydon. As
State printer, he moved with the government from Corydon to Indianapolis in 1824 and
bought an interest in the Western Censor and Emigrants` Guide. He enlarged the news-
paper and changed its name to the Indiana Journal.

⁷⁹On 25 October 1828, both William and J. Hewitt were present at a Louisville and
Portland Canal Company stockholders meeting in Philadelphia (resolution of 25 October
1828, Canvass White Papers, Cornell University Library, Ithaca). As William Hewitt
[1768-1835] was more active in these proceedings, most likely he took the initiative
and travelled to view the site and investigate the problems.

⁸⁰Basil Hall made at least four drawings with the camer lucida when he was in
Louisville from 10-14 May 1828. Of particular interest is a view of the Ohio River from
Shippingport. The drawings are part of the Hall collection of the Lilly Library, Indiana
University, Bloomington.

⁸¹A notice for "500 Negroes wanted" for the Canal appeared in the Louisville Public
Advertiser, Vol. 10, No. 1011, 14 June 1828, p. [1], col. [5]. Lapham's May 1828
meteorological table appeared in the Louisville Public Advertiser, Vol. 10, No. 1010, 11
June 1828, p. [3], col. [5].

⁸²Henry Rowe Schoolcraft [1793-1864], born in New York, attended Union and
Middlebury Colleges before making several explorations in the West. Lapham was
reading about his second expedition in Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi
Valley: . . ., 1821, Collins and Hannay, New York, 1825. Schoolcraft is best known for