(James) Rumsey for ascending rapid
currents by mechanism.... Having hired three Pack horses to give my own
greater relief...."
_September 11._ "This is a pretty considerable water and, as it is said to
have no fall in it, may, I conceive, be improved into a valuable
navigation...."
_September 12._ "Crossing the Mountains, I found tedious and fatieguing
[_sic_].... In passing over the Mountains I met numbers of Persons and
Pack horses ... from most of whom I made enquiries of the nature of the
Country...."
_September 13._ "I visited my Mill" [a mill which he had had built before
the Revolution]....
_September 15._ "This being the day appointed for the Sale of my moiety of
the Co-partnership Stock many People were gathered (more out of curiosity
I believe than from other motives). My Mill I could obtain no bid for...."
_September 19._ "Being Sunday, and the People living on my Land,
apparently very religious" [these were Scotch-Irish who had squatted on a
rich piece of land patented by Washington], "it was thought best to
postpone going among them till to-morrow.
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