26th [FIGURE] I recieved 2 letters. In company
with Mrs Woodruff & child I took cab
rode to St Georges Peer took steemer went
into the river Mercy along side of the steemer
Great Britain while taken in passengers
the steemer we were in came near being
crushed between the great Britain &
a 1000 ton ship we narrowly escaped
from this we landed at Rock ferry oposite
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