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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2
Docno: ADMS-13-02-02-0002-0014-0006
Date: 1826-12-06
Wednesday. 6th.1
A Drawing room in the evening. Recognized a great variety of my old acquaintances
both in and out of Congress. But a vast crowd of entire strangers were here, principally
members of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal Convention which assembled today, I believe
for the purpose of counteracting the effect produced by the estimates of the cost
of the work as made by the board of U.S. Engineers. They are made in the most liberal
way, and perhaps after all, it would be better at once to accustom the public mind
to that amount than to cheat them by prices too low.2
1. CFA was indolent in the morning, walked, read Spenser, and took a ride with his mother
(D/CFA/1).
2. The Board of Engineers of the U.S. Army had estimated the cost of building the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal at $22,000,000 (JQA, Diary, 23 Oct. 1826). Congress subscribed for 10,000 shares of stock in the company (Bemis, JQA, 2:75, note).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017.
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