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Thursday forenoon. 16th. Sept. People can go to Portland + back, today, for $1. to see the Great Panorama [underlined]. Some 50 went from our place. Arte has gone + left his store shut up. He had business to Portland, + shrewdly calcu-lated that the $1.90 that he would save by going to-day, would be more than the profits of the store. I carried Thomas Ellis as far as Chase's Mills on his way to Turner. He has a nice cane; + is very particular about what he eats + drinks. He don't drink cold [underlined] water with his food, because his diges-tion is not strong enough to have it. He don't drink hot [underlined] water, because it weakens his stomach. He don't drink coffee hot or cold, because it has a narcotic effect on the vital energies. He don't drink strong tea, because it produces an unnatural excitement of the nervous organs. He don't eat fine flour bread because it operates costively [?] upon the viscera [underlined] (sticks in his guts) He don't eat fat meat because it engenders extraneous humors in the blood, as is often indicated by eruptions on the cuticle [underlined], or skin. This particularity in his diet makes it rather difficult to suit him at our table. As he could drink neither hot water nor cold, neither strong tea nor coffee, your mother had to try several experiments to form a mixture that he deemed safe + scientific. I ought not to make sport of Thomas, and do [underlined] not. But I will laugh at his whims, and did ridicule them at his face. [two words illegible] Z. Long