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82 June 24 Saturday waiting here longer than I anticipated and sitting alone upon deck witnessing the bustle, and noise about the Steamboat Station. I see those that have made a great noise, and those that are making a great noise, and those that are going to make a great noise in the world. A promiscous multitude of all ages sorts and sizes, Retreating old age, Interesting manhood and the charming youth. Happy for them of their phrenological developments were such as to insure them all true happiness. At half past eleven we? arrived at Fairport. Baggage taken up to the Farmers Inn. Found my Cousins Wm Hill and Joseph Lawyer hard at work putting the boilers and Enginery into a new Steamboat which they are building, of which Wm expects to be Capt when done. Fairport of all others is the most unfair. If I were to undertake to make anything of it I should want two hundred years to do it in, and capital accordingly, and then abandon it altogether. Two Taverns adjoining each other seems to institute the metropolis. At six ock Cozn Wm and myself took a seat in the Stage