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Jan. 1830

...the steam boat to see Mr. Sayer who was about starting from Ohio. I found that the arbitration was not likely to come on within a week or two owing to the abuse of Mr. [Faron?] one of the arbitrators & the indisposition of Mr. White another. In the afternoon I rode with Mr. D. Carrol to see Mr. Carney who now lives on a farm west of the city.
Jan 11th Monday
Went down the canal this morning to see the works and my old friends. In the general apearance of the work there is but little alteration since I left here in Oct. The embankment at the upper end is about 25 feet 10 ft wide on the top; slopes about 1 to 1 1/2 to 1. It will undoubtedly be correct away if there should be a high flood in the river this seaso. The contractors are now more in the habit of moving Dibble's crain to raise the rock from...

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Jan. 1830

...the bottom of the canal to the birm. They are not as large as is usually made and have not the small post. The main brace extends from the top of the post to the end of the sill. At the lock I saw two of the gates in rater an awkward portion. The late floods have raised them from the post, and the bottom of the gates swung out from the wall & would have risen to surface of the wter, but for the chains put into open them. It is needless to add that the coping to which the gate was attached is also fremoved from its [illegible], and the adjacent parts of the wall materially [illegible].
Went to see Mr. Taylor & got a letter from Mr. Isaace Sea of Philadelphia relating to some shells I had sent him - After I returned, I spent the rest of the day in copying it.