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...up the canal to meet Mr. Rowan & Mr. Goodwin - who came down to see the moddle [sic] of the bridge across the guard lock on a new plan invented by Mr. Henry. In the afternoon I went to Louisville to carry the reports &c. and got a compass with which we made a survey of the land at the upper end which the company want to purchace [sic] of the Rowans - In the evening I got a letter from Darius Lapham describing a new plan for bridges over steep locks.

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May 2d Saturday
A rainy day and I stayed most of the time at home
May 3d
Today I went to Louisville to church but there was none! the door was locked
The river has been falling very rapidly since the 27th [illegible] and is now so low as to be entirely off of the work I supposed also that it was low enough to allow me to get some shells; accordingly I went over to Rock Island but...