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� 6 On the Transport Marimack

it appeard to be glideing 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 bay and cast anchor to lay till morning.

  Sept 6th  A fine day, and we proce-ded 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 plantation's wer visible upon the Maeryland 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 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