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1826.

1826. Went to school in Rochester the first part of this year.
Darius was employed on the Welland canal in Upper Canada;
and father went to Ohio on the Miami canal leaving the
family in Lockport.

March 7. Fifteen years old today.
In June of this year I assisted in running a test
level for a canal around Niagara Falls on the Canadian
side.

Aug. 5. Father secured a situation for me on the Miami canal,
and wrote that I must come immediately.

Aug. 11. Went in a canal packet boat to Buffalo and before night
was on board the steamboat Enterprise on my way up Lake
Erie. My father made this trip, a few years ago in the
steamboat Walk-in-the-Water, which had so little strength
of engine that oxen were employed to pull the boat up the
then--existing rapids, from Black Rock to Buffalo.

Aug. 13. Sunday; arrived in Buffalo just at night.

Aug. 14. Started in the stage at three this monring [morning] for Middle-
ton on the Miami canal; rode sixty miles.

Aug. 15. Rode to Columbus where we staid all night.

Aug. 16. Drove to Dayton, where we staid.

Aug. 17. Got to Middleton at breakfast time this morning. Went
to Duck Creek, saw father and found I had come much soon-
er than he expected, -- my place not ready.

Aug. 30. Commenced work on the Miami canal as rodman, under Byron
Kilbourn Asst. and Samuel Forrer resident engineer, at
$12.00 per month and $3.00 per week for board. ****

Dec. 15. A few weeks ago father went to Louisville having been em-
ployed on the canal at that place; today I left the above