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...state of the work, number of hands necessary for completing it this year and his opinion respecting the smallness of their number at present. This had become necessary in consequence of a lack of energy on the part of Mr. Ives in procuring men, inducing them to stay when here &c &c.
In the forenoon to day M. Henry made out his communication and I copied it. In the afternoon we set some stakes at the upper end for the embkt. Mr. Butler came down just as we had finished and walked...

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...with us down the canal after which we visited Mr. Carney who is improveing. Weather quite hot.
Sunday May 31st 1829
I went to Louisville to church this morning found a Methodist church in a Presbyterian meeting house.
Monday June 1st
Went up the canal in the forenoon and kept on to Louisville - got a letter for Mr. Henry from a man in New York whose name is ____ Wilder, and who is appointed by the Engineer Department at Washington to superintend the construction of the...