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...new one (See Botanical Observations for 1829) I also went up the canal in an interval between two showers of rain. The rest of the time was spent in the office. April 10 This morning it was also rainy but towards noon the rain ceased but was succeeded by high wind. As today is the last day of the court in Louisville. Mr. Henry has to attend as a witness; accordingly we made out the reports sooner...
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...than usual and he took them up. After this I wrote a letter to Judge Bates in answer to the one I received a few days ago. I then took a walk along the canal. The work is now very much interupted by high water in the river which is now as high as it has been this spring and rising rapidly. April 11th This forenoon I helped do osme work at the Bridge - in the afternoon I drew a plan of a house for the Louisville Exchange.
p. 70 and 71
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The weather continues the same as yesterday being of that description which is rather peculiar to March than April - Cold, windy, with broken clouds passing rapidly by discharging now and then slight showers of rain, between which showers we will perhaps have a short interval of sunshine. The river commenced falling this afternoon. April 12th Sunday A rainy day and we all stayed in our rooms April 13th This morning we had some...
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work to attend to at the bridge and in the afternoon I went to the woods, as there was no work on the canal in search of flowers, found one, and while I was there a shower of rain commenced suddenly, and before I could get home I was quite wet. The river has commenced falling. April 14th This morning I went up to Louisville and went a little way up Beargrass Creek for plants. In the afternoon I worked a little on the canal. The weather has moderated...
p. 72 and 73
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April 15th Wednesday I worked on the rain nearly all the time today. At evening I got a letter from Pazzi Lapham at Cincinnati: He is not entirely out of employment but only engaged temporarily in the office he is now in. Quite a heavy frost last night. April 16th I worked most of the time for the canal; measured a level of cypress timber in the forenoon and in the afternoon I assisted in taking some levels at the bridge - Weather rather smoky.
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April 17 1829 Went up the canal in the forenoon and done some work and then assisted in making the estimates &c. In the afternoon I borrowed Walt Brun's Geography and read some in it. The river yet continues very high about 3 feet above the bottom of the guardlock. April 18th As there was no work requiring to be done today, I drew another plan for the exchange in Louisville. A premium of...
p. 74 and 75
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Fifty dollars is offered for the best plan. Mr. Goodwin gives me the sketch of the building and I drew it for half the premium if it should be gained. Sunday April 19th The weather this morning was cloudy with some light showers of rain. In the forenoon I visited some acquaintences in Shippingport. At noon it clouded off and the afternoon was oppresively warm. I went towards the woods in search of flowers; and returned with...
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...a high perspiration. This extreme heat indicated, I thought, some severe storm and in this I was not disappointed. About 10 o'clock the heavens blackened with thick clouds; the wind raised; the most vivid flashes of lightning I think I ever saw accompanied by the most dreadfull thunder awoke me from a gentle sleep into which I had just droped [sic]. The wind continued to roar, the lightning increased to almost one continued blaze, and the thunder...
p. 76 and 77
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...on continued sound. Now the rain commenced falling, not as usual in drops but apparently in one solid mass of water; which materially checked the violence of the wind - No material damage was done to any of the houses except a small room which Mr D'etiste had built on his porch for a bed in summer, which was entirely blown down - it stood directly opposite the window at which I slept.
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April 20 I worked on the canal this forenoon; at noon Mr. Goodwin came in and had some material alterations to make in the plan of the exchange which rendered it necessary that it should be drawn again and as they are to be handed in this evening no itme was to be lost. Accordingly I drew the plan in the afternoon and carried it to Louisville at evening. April 21st 1829 I worked on the canal most of...
