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...the time today. The men who were appointd to examine plans for the Exchange have deferred their decision until Monday next.
Wednesday April 22 1829
I helped do some work at the bridge and along the line of the canal. Carry Sayre & co. commissioned work on the lock the first this season. The river still remains high and is now rising -
We were visited today by Mr. Wm Jerome Esq. formerly an Engineer on the Champlain Canal in New York. He has been...

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...employed by the United States to survey on the rout for a canal from the Tennessee at the mouth of the Hyawasse across the mountains & down the O to Milledyeburgh in Georgia, and is now on his return to Washington City to make his report. He has to build 10 miles of Rail Road over the Blue Ridge.
Thursday
Worked on the canal.
Fryday
Commenced drawing the Exchange in the morning. In the afternoon I went to...