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| + | it appeard to be gliding away behind, and at last disappearing behind the deep blue sea. We had a very pleasant voige, and passed many vesels on our way. On the 5th in the P.M. we stoped in the Chesapeak [Chesapeake] bay and cast anchor to lay till morning. | ||
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| + | Sept 6th A fine day, and we proceeded up the Potomac river which was a splendid oportunity for us to give our eyes a feast for they had got hungary for land, for we had eaven been out of sight of land a part of the time after leaving Boston. Many fine residents and plantations wer visible upon the Merryland [Maryland] side of the river, but the Va side had desolate look generaly. We hove to near Alexandria Va in the P.M. and staid all night. | ||
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" 7th We left the good old Marrymack [Merrimack] which had brot us so many miles over the deep and took small steamboats for Washington DC. a distance of some six miles. We landed and soon wer marched to the arcenal grounds and into the building and was armed and equiped for the first | " 7th We left the good old Marrymack [Merrimack] which had brot us so many miles over the deep and took small steamboats for Washington DC. a distance of some six miles. We landed and soon wer marched to the arcenal grounds and into the building and was armed and equiped for the first | ||
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6 On the Transport Marimack [Merrimack]
it appeard to be gliding away behind, and at last disappearing behind the deep blue sea. We had a very pleasant voige, and passed many vesels on our way. On the 5th in the P.M. we stoped in the Chesapeak [Chesapeake] bay and cast anchor to lay till morning.
Sept 6th A fine day, and we proceeded up the Potomac river which was a splendid oportunity for us to give our eyes a feast for they had got hungary for land, for we had eaven been out of sight of land a part of the time after leaving Boston. Many fine residents and plantations wer visible upon the Merryland [Maryland] side of the river, but the Va side had desolate look generaly. We hove to near Alexandria Va in the P.M. and staid all night.
" 7th We left the good old Marrymack [Merrimack] which had brot us so many miles over the deep and took small steamboats for Washington DC. a distance of some six miles. We landed and soon wer marched to the arcenal grounds and into the building and was armed and equiped for the first