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I think, would provide against sinking, effectually ; but, at any 

 rate, it is one which can be tried very easily and with very little 

 expence. I would make a partition of strong plank ; put it in the 

 broadest fore-part of the boat, right across, and put good iron bolts 

 under the bottom of the boat, through these planks, and screw 

 them on the top of the deck. Then put an upright post in the 

 inside of the boat against the middle of the phnk partition, and 

 put a spur to the upright post. The partition should be water 

 tight. I would then load the forepart of the boat, thus partitioned 

 off, with lumber or such loading as is least liable to injury, and 

 best calculated to stop the progress of a sawyer after it has gone 

 through the boat. By thus appropriating the fore-part of the 

 boat to the reception of planters and sawyers, it appears to me 

 that the other part would be secured against all intrusion. 



957. July 2gth. From Wheeling, through Charlston, changing 

 sides of the river again to Steubenville. My eyes were delighted 

 at Charlston to see the smoke of the coals ascending from the 

 glass-works they have here. This smoke it is that must enrich 

 America ; she might save almost all her dollars if she would but 

 bring her invaluable black diamonds into service. Talk of 

 independence, indeed, without coats to wear or knives or plates 

 to eat with ! 



958. At Steubenville, became acquainted with Messrs. Wills, 

 Ross, and company, who have an excellent and well-conducted 

 woollen manufactory here. They make very good cloths, and at 

 reasonable prices ; I am sorry they do not retail them at Phila 

 delphia ; I, for one, should be customer to them for all that my 

 family wanted in the woollen-way. Here are likewise a Cotton- 

 mill, a Grist-mill, a Paper-mill, an Iron-foundery and Tan-yards 

 and Breweries. Had the pleasure to see Mr. Wilson, the editor 

 of the Steubenville Gazette, a very public-spirited man, and, I 

 believe, very serviceable to this part of the country. If the 

 policy he so powerfully advocates were adopted, the effects would 

 be grand for America ; it would save her dollars while it would 

 help to draw the nails of the vile Boroughmongers. But, he has 

 to labour against the inveterate effects of the thing the most 

 difficult of all others to move habit. 



959. By what I have been able to observe of this part of the 

 country, those who expect to find what is generally understood 

 by society, pretty much the same that they have been accustomed 

 to it on the Atlantic side, or in England, will not be totally dis 

 appointed. It is here upon the basis of the same manners and 

 customs as in the oldest settled districts, and it there differs from 

 what it is in England, and here from what it is there, only ac 

 cording to circumstances. Few of the social amusements that 

 are practicable at present, are scarce ; dancing, the most rational 

 for every reason, is the most common ; and, in an assemblage for 

 this purpose, composed of the farmers daughters and sons from 

 20 miles round, an Englishman (particularly if a young one) 



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