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First page see Acct of Silas HorseHead Metcalf please examine into the genealogy thereof Paper containing Obituary of my friend & Classmate John Dennys Kilby, by Jos. C. Pickard was duly received, an much obliged therefor.

 Your inquiry about Characteristics of Women I have no time to enquire just now, will try however sometime. Will just hazard the idea "Cordelia" please state your ideas etc. on the topic, and I will argufy it. A certain familiar consciousness of merit curiously combined with a strange distrust of it, a dread of telling of it perhaps is a most marked characteristic a family I know if. 

Hydraulic Ram you ought to see. It is a very valuable machine. A fall of a few feet in a little brook can send constant supply of up most any where etc. [upside down]Isaac

                    Oct 15 1849