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...objects 1,000,000 times animalcula in vinegar were two feet long and resembled eels variases other objects of curiosity were exhibited such as small insects, a fly's wing &c. &c. The exhibition was in a dark room no more light being admitted tha what passed through the instrument which was made in London.
Mr. [Canwal?] White and Lady arrived here on the 26th.
Dec 31
This morning I went to Louisville and had not been there long before Mr. White went down to the upper end of the canal to locate the new...

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...line of canal which is to run in the bank near the hill following its rendings &c.

On the first of January 1829 I went up there with Mr. Henry to level and bore to the rock and ascertain its depth.
Jan 5th 1829
Recd. a letter from Darius dated Dec 29th in which he informed me that he has received a letter from Miss Phobe Allen directed to me. I am to send there a leveling instrument belonging to the state of Ohio and three barrels of water lime to be used in the Yellow Bud Aqueduct.