… the first trip of the kind I had ever made on a canal. The day was excessively hot, and on the way, one of the horses … in a beautiful grove, which were well attended. During the day, the burden fell chiefly upon me, as Douglass was … Dr. Peck, helped to fill up the gap at the meetings. To-day, I leave for New Lyme, (40 miles off,) where the annual …