18 A plesant day we arived in Pittsburgh at 12
oclock All quite as well as could be expected I was
visited by several steem Boat captains who wishd
to take our company to St Louis I finally made A
contract with Captain Devinney of the De Wit Clinton
to take our company to St Louis on the following ter[ms]
cabin passage $8, steerage $2, freight 20 cts per
100 lbs & He agreed to wait for our other Boats to
come up most of us spent the night on board
the section Boat. I received A letter stateing that
the Hind Boat had met with an accident knocked a
hole in the boat & detained them two days to mend
it distance from Philedelphia to Pittsburgh [blank]
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