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p. 108 and 109
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...the tops from which position he was released by the other men without injury to his person. The returning from the upper end of the canal I assisted in making out to report and then copied them. Mr. Goodwin happened to be down when I got them done - he had the goodness to carry them up and thus saved me the trouble. I was at the bridge nearly all afternoon. Saturday May 23d I went up the canal this morning and then went to Louisville - In the afternoon I drew a small plan of the locks for myself...
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...got a letter from D. Lapham stating that Pazzi had got into the office of the Scioto Gazette and from him recd. that paper. He will probably remain there for 3 years. Some appearances of rain, river falling - The work on the canal in general does not progress as well and as rapidly as it did last year at this time - We have now only about 300 men then we had more than double that number engaged. The bridge however forms an exception - the 3 centres are up, one arch is nearly turned - the rest in a forward state - the whole will be done within...
p. 110 and 111
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...the time specified in the contract, July first. Sunday May 24th 1829 Heavy rain in the night. Set up with Mr. Carney in company with Messrs. Henry & Taylor - Slept half the day. It rained part of the time some heavy showers. May 25th Heavy rain into the night, river rose 2 ft - Having drank too freely of 'Lemon ade' I was taken sick in the night vomited up all of my supper and was hurried out of bed this morning with the dysentary - Felt quite...
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...unwell all the forenoon. Assisted in laying out the moving bridge across the guard lock and there drew a plan of the lock gates for Mr. Barber who has contracted to build the 5 remaining pairs for $1.900 in the forenoon; and in the afternoon I went to Louisville to get some drawing paper - bought some views of bridges and a view of the double lock & entrance of a tunnel in London May 26th 1829 In the morning I helped do some work on the canal and then drew two...
p. 112 and 113
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...plans of moving bridge, one for our office & another for the directors which took me until the middle of the afternoon - After this I went to Louisville, got a letter out of the P.O. for Mr. Henry from Mr. White who states that he will leave the Lehigh canal for this place. He says he has received Mr. Henry's letter requesting him to purchace a level which he will do & bring it on with him. He also requests Mr. Henry to 'hold on' to the level he has now in his possession that he wants to see Judge Bates' claim before he lets him have it.
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In the evening I got a letter from Pazzi Lapham dated at Chillicothe Ohio Wed May 27th 1829 This morning I put in the post office a letter to Darius. Then went up the canal in the forenoon - In the afternoon I done some work on the canal vis taking levels on the earth remaining to be excavated by Sutherland & Adams. At night I took a pill consisting of a mixture of calomel and [illegible]. May 28 Jumped out of bed this morning with a cramp in my leg - In the forenoon I went to Portland to measure some timber sold to Mr. Ainsley.
p. 114 and 115
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Fryday May 29th This morning I worked on the canal assisting to take the necessary measurements &c. for the reports, and then leveled for Mr. Detiste the place for the posts of an amphitheatre or summer house which he is building in a large elm tree near the Bridge which Capt B. Hall requested should be called 'Halls Free' - After this I went down to Shippingport and copied the reports. While I was doing it Capt. Smyth came in & inquired for Mr. Henry who had just stopped...
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...out. He said he wanted to employ me to assist him in taking the examinations of the obsructions in the Wabash river; but I could not leave this canal. The weather was oppressively hot in the forenoon, at noon there came on a heavy gale of wind followed by a shower of rain after which it was more cool. May 30th Yesterday the board of directors passed a resolution that the engineer should make a written communication to Ives & Baldwin respecting the...
p. 116 and 117
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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...
