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...named. The weather began to moderate on Sunday last and to-day it is quite warm: the river also began to fall a few days ago and is going down very rapidly. Done some work on the canal in the afternoon at the bridge where they have commenced laying stone.
Wed. March 25th 1829
I spent most of my time to-day at work on the canal - setting stakes for rock cutting at the lower end and attending to the laying out of the patterns for the eliptic arch in the...

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...bridge. This is done with a trammel and the joints of the voissures are got by bisecting the angle formed by lines drawn from the foci and intersecting each other on the perifery [sic].
March 26th
Mr. Henry has been to Louisville every day since Saturday last as a wittness [sic] in a suit which has been deferred from day to day until this time when it was put off until the last day of the court. I went up the canal in the forenoon and...