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23rd and first of the week-- My mind when favour'd to get into the quiet has enjoy'd a comfortable state of tranquility; but thro’ sundry requests of the natives also as the white people in passing up &; down this river make this house a stoping place -and many travelers latterly calling some being detain'd- has occaisoned us some difficulty in sitting quietly down in our religious opportunities. Oh that we may be enabled thro’ all difficulties to dwell near that fountain, from whence preservation and heavenly instruction flows 1 mo 29 - From her Diary –- forward 9 leaves: 2 Month 22nd To her sister MS. When I wrote to father I mentioned that we expected to build a house neart this, for a school house which is now accomplished, and altho’ the weather much of the time since has been stormy and the river difficult to cross, yet we have not been unimploy'd. As soap making is a novel to most