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knee deep, and the streets almost unpassable; now
it is quite dry and the streets very comfortable.
It is a delightful climate. I like this city much.
It is all go ahead, bustle and activity, and, although
burnt to ashes but a few days ago, is many alive
as if nothing had happened.

Moses Brown, Ben Frazier, and their
company all arrived here safe. I saw Brown last
Wednesday just as he was starting off North, did
not see Frazier; he had started off before we ran
across them. They were all well. Brown told us
he saw you and you were all snart the night before
he started. They were longer coming than we were
a number of days; had some sickness and deaths on
board ? bessels [vessels]. They have gone about seventy
five miles north of this to a place call Coloma,
though I am not sure I spell it right.

We board at a Hotel,
the man we work for living out of town a
couple of miles, but we are all paid so much $75.
and boarded. In almost every thing but clothing,
there is a difference if about 1 to 4 between here
and at home. A man can get $75 for doing
what he might get $15. for there; board is $12. here
when it would be $3. there; and a glass of Grog (of
which there is an immense amount sold) instead
of being six cents, as there, is here twenty five cents.
But clothing of many kinds is almost as cheap here
as at home. Boots and shoes are rather high, say as
high again as at home. And then it nothing to work
here, if what we have done is a sample; ten hours is a day's