22nd
I wrote two Letters one to Mr
& & the other a reco-
mmend to to our friends
I then took a walk with Elder
to we first visited the Navy
yard of the U S. A. Saw 500 heavy peics
of cannon for shiping about 200 bushel
of Balls shot &c visited the dry dock,
saw the Vermont 90 gun ship of the line
Boston 22 guns. Cumberland 52 guns
sloop Prebble 16, Falmouth 24 guns
cannonades &c The shot on bord of these
boats rate from 32 to 64 lbs Walked on the
wall out in the harbour round a part of the
navy yard saw 30 guns mounted on
the battery, saw the sloop Plymouth now
building 24 guns, went on board of the
steem frigate Missisippi of 16 guns this
with the steem ship Missouri is the ownly
regular steem ships of war in the American
Navy. We saw the Franklin of 74 guns
visited the United States Ropewalk in
all its branches, which is carried by
a steem engine of 40 Horse power
length of the Rope walk is 13.60 feet
we next took dinner with sister cornor [of]
Charleston.
I then visited
which is one of the most splendid colums
in the world I enter the tub & was
drawn up by steem 220 feet whare
I had a view of All , ,
, &c I was carried down
by steem the same as I went up I
Bought a Book & paid 37 1/2 ct & 20
for going up. I went on to the
embankment & aat [sat] down & rote an
account of it. We next visited
the states prision their was 262
prisioners at the various Branches of
Business, after seeing each appartmet
we returned to Boston & in com[p]any with
& Sister & Sister , I went
to Br in Salem St & met with the
Saints for a prayer meeting, yet the Time was
occupied by the Twelve in addressing the Saints
Elder first spoke was followed by
W. Woodruff & in
bearing testimony of the work & advising the
Saints to support the Press. After meeting I took
the parting hand with the Saints & returned to
Br Tuckers who carried my traveling bag on
his sho^u^lder home I spent the night with them
& most of it in packing up my trunk & things
I lay abed abot 2 hours & got up in the morning
