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cions I now Must Make to try to find it again, but so 

 dull do I feel about it that I am nearly Made Sick 



I Wrote to M"^ John Garnier, requesting him to 

 advertise and procure some one to try to find My 

 Port Folio [for] but no Hopes can I have of ever 

 seeing it when Lost amongst 150 or 160 flat Boats 

 and Houses filled with the Lowest of Caracters — No 

 doubt My Drawings will serve to ornement their Par- 

 lours or will be Nailed on Some of The Steering Oars — 



We passed to day A Long Line of Bluffs exquisiting 

 grand to the sight — 



My Port Folio Contained 15 Drawings Three of 

 Which were Non Descripts — One a Duck extremely 

 Curious and rare that I had Named the Pintail: 

 Should I not get it again, it may retard My return 

 home very Considerable — 



Monday January p* 1821 



This day 21 Years since I was at Rochefort in France. 

 I spent most of that day at Copying Letters of My 

 Father to the Minister of the Navy — 



What I have seen, and felt since, would fill a Large 

 Volume — the Whole of Which Would end at this Day 

 January /«' 1821. I am on Board a Keel Boat going down 

 to New Orleans the poorest Man on it — & What I have 

 seen and felt has brought some very dearly purchased 

 Experience, and Yet Yesterday I forgot that No serv- 



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