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Fifty dollars is offered for the best plan. Mr. Goodwin gives me the sketch of the building and I drew it for half the premium if it should be gained.
Sunday April 19th
The weather this morning was cloudy with some light showers of rain. In the forenoon I visited some acquaintences in Shippingport. At noon it clouded off and the afternoon was oppresively warm. I went towards the woods in search of flowers; and returned with...

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...a high perspiration. This extreme heat indicated, I thought, some severe storm and in this I was not disappointed. About 10 o'clock the heavens blackened with thick clouds; the wind raised; the most vivid flashes of lightning I think I ever saw accompanied by the most dreadfull thunder awoke me from a gentle sleep into which I had just droped [sic]. The wind continued to roar, the lightning increased to almost one continued blaze, and the thunder...