Box 1, Folder 5: Diaries 1827-1828

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25 Nitric Acid 26 Mild nitrate of mercury +27 Acetic Acid 28 Acetate of silver +29 Sulphuric Acid +30 Oxalic Acid 31 Potash - caustic or pure +32 Pure ammonia +33 Carbonate of potash 34 Alcohol +35 Carbonate of Lime 36 Hydrosulphuret of stromtain 37 Barytes water 38 Nibrious gas +29 Litharge 30 Carbonate of Soda See 27. 31 Sulphate of Silver 32 Soda pure +33 - Lime +34 - Sulphate of potash

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35 bi-carbonate of potash 36 Hydrosulphiret of potash +37 water of ammonia 38 Distilled vinger 39 Carbonate of magnesia 40 Boraccic Acid - 41 Succinate of ammonia 42 Carbonate of Barites +43 of ammonia +44 Muriate of Do 45 Nitrate of Do + Paper stained by the blue petals of the Iris or common flag. muriate of mercury alcohol

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of the decay of vegetation. If it is possible for vegetables to be converted into smoke without combustion this will appear very probable. he relates an instance of a very smoky day at New Madrid being followed by an earthquake this he supposed to be the smoke that had risen through the ground. I told him that I supposed it was owing to peculiar state of the atmosphere which was unfavourable to the decomposition of smoke. To this he made no reply. On Monday last I sent a letter to Darius it contained a description of the high pressure steam engine Thursday Oct 26 Mr. Henry commenced taking up his [lodgings?] [bc?] in my [illegible] this eveng. [evening?]

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Journal for 1827 93 Oct 28. I went over the river today with Mr. Bates [?] Brown we went to see the Boiling spring about one mile from New Albany. It is in the clay bank of a small creek called fountain creek. A gas continually issues from it which has the smell of Sulphurated hydrogen. A gentleman of New Albany has boared 300 feet near there for salt or coal but unsucsessfully. He intends to continue boring next season. November 1. Thursday We received a letter from Darius to day in which he informed us that he has been sick 3 weeks but had recovered. Saturday Nov 3 I worked all day on the canal. 252.5 grains is the weight of a cubic inch of water see [chemical?] [industry?] [art?] [?] X Dr. Clapp

[Left page] Journal 1827 A little rain this morning it was followed by a dark gloomy wether [weather] which Mrs. Henry said was the port tunner of our earthquake but the earth did not quake Nov 13 I sent my discription [description] of the Louisville of Portland canal to Profes. Silliman today it was accompanied by a map, and a figure of the crane. Nov 21 Wednesday. Mrs. Henry wrote a letter to Collins Chapman for; after copying it into the book of records I went up the canal and witnessed an experiment made in the excava tion of earth on the plan of Mr. Oliver Phelps of the Welland Canal. It is described by D. Lapham in the following words: "His machine is simply a wheel placed on the bank, the axis of which is at right angles

[Right page] Journal 1827 with [illegible] roads down the bank, and a railway of timber is placed for the wheels to run on in going up the slope furnished with a rope and a hook at each end when a team is loaded in the canal the hook is made fast to the tongue of the wagon and an empty team is coming in at the same time and the rope is made fast on the hind end of the wagon going down. The empty team draws the loaded one up. Likewise the team going up draws the same as before without the machine." We take out of the canal of 35 feet perpendicular height, on a slope of one or three fourths to one, one half of a cubic yard of earth to each load; with a cart and one yoke of oxen, aggreeable [agreeable] to experiment made while was up the canal this morning. The number of lodes [loads] taken out in a day will be counted soon.

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Nov 22 Thursday. Went up the canal before noon. After noon I stayed in my room reading in [Fitters?] elements of general History which I have comenced [commenced] this Day Mr. Victory Audubon says that "flies from a vacuum under their feet when they light for the purpose of keeping themselves to the sur face on which they light." In the same manner as the Limpet (Pattella L) attaches itself to the rocks. He says that some late writer had suggested the idea of a man's walking up a perpendicular wall by having a proper apparatus for forming a vacuum under his hands & feet. Nov 23. Friday I went around among the foremen to get the number of men for Mr Henry's report. Afterward I went a hunting killed a rabit [rabbit] and two wood peckers Nov 24. worked on the lock today

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Nov 26. Monday nothing to do on the canal I read nearly all Day in my Hystorical [historical] Book. Nov 27. Before Dinner I went after a cow that was not come up or unusual, and after Dinner I worked nearly all the time on the canal Nov 28 Nothing to do on the canal Mr. Geo. S. Rhines an engineer on the Cheasipeke [Chesapeake] & Dellaware [Delaware] Canal united Mr. Henry at my room this afternoon Mr. Victor Audubon started for New Orleans today in the toe-boat [towboat] Heroules. Nov 29 Thursday. A little work on the canal after dinner; before that time I was in the housing drawing a plan of a pump. This morning we had some difficulties with a negro woman who is suspected to have

[Left page] Shippingsport Nov. 1827. stolen $30 from my trunk we searched her trunk and [be.?] but found nothing of it, but we still believe that she has stolen it, we say nothing about it to her in hopes that it will be by accident found where it is. Nov. 30. Work on the canal for the estimates, which I went to Louisville to deliver to the Sacratary* [Secretary] of Louisville & Portland Canal Company Dec 1. Saturday. I finished reading my Element of general History, and com menced reading in Mackenzie's voyages from Montreal to the [frozen?] of Pacific Oceans. Nothing to do on the canal I spent the greater part of the time in reading in the above mentioned Books. I expect to commence going to school as soon as Darius comes here which I expect will be within two or three weeks from this time. *[faber?] Orthography

[Right page] Shippingsport Ky. 1827. Dec 2. Sunday. Mother having the ganders, * vulgarly called jaundice Father and myself went into the woods in search of wild berry bark, which we found to be verry [very] scarce. The rest part of the day I spent in reading in the Book above mentioned Dec 3d I took a long trip after the cow, this morning, after which I spent my time on the Lock till night. Dec 4th Tuesday at Rainy day I spent my time in reading in Mackenzie’s voyages. Dec 5th It rained nearly all day today though not so much as yesterday. There has been no work done on the Canal for these two days. I spent my time in reading Mackenzie’s Voyages. This book gives an account of two voyages, both commencing at fort chippiwoyan [Chipewyan?], on the west end of the lake of the Hills, In 1789 he went down Mackenzie’s river to the [Frozen?] Ocean. And in 1793 he went up the Peace River to the Rocky Mountains