96 Notizen. 



during this time I worked occasionally at the triangulation of 

 Switzerland extending it each side of the base. — 12^^ Retur- 

 ning home my fellow Citizens placed me by their votes in the 

 city Council where the superintendance of the public buildings 

 and the care of the archives were committed to me, and the 

 legislature elected me member suppliant of the supreme Court 

 where I was called to every sitting and had again principally 

 the criminal procedures entrusted to me. My office received 

 in 1786 was however not yet extinct and presented a steady 

 resource. — 13^^ It was under these circumstances that foro- 

 seeing that changes would occur in the Organization of the Swiss 

 government too much dependant on the chances of the French 

 Revolution and the general political quabbles of Europe. I 

 suffered myself to be induced to accept the proposition to join 

 with two other friends in an association to establish in this 

 country on land with a society of shareholders of whom we 3 

 friends received procuration for all management. I left in conse- 

 quence my native place the 15*^ of May 1805, with wife, children, 

 servants, and besides 96 trunks or bales or similar for down 

 the Rine. — U^^ Having chartered in Amsterdam the ship 

 Liberty 350 tons from Philadelphia we arrived at the port in 

 September. — My partner having nudated the funds which 

 I had sent to him to Paris in a Claim upon South Carolina 

 there was a to do to try to get for the nominal 120,000 "V^oo 

 which he had purchased, but that, as well as the advances 

 which I had made of the passages of part of the Company (of 

 120) and the general provision for the vessel were all not only 

 losses but left debt for maintaining a partner in Charleston 

 which could only be paid long after." 



[R. Wolf.] 



