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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Collection Number:	M92- 1
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	Collection/Series Title:	Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
	Container:	00005
	File Unit:	00005.00005
	Item:	00015
	Title:	Letter, February 5, 1828, from Hermitage, published December 1905, regretting he could not attend a dinner to which Call had invited him, and describing a scene "presented by the eighteen steamboats, and the shipping in the harbor . . . The division being formed, the Pocahontas wheeled down the river, the cloud disappeared, and when passing the city, the sun shone out with unusual splendor, spreading over the city the most delightful rainbow I ever witnessed. You can figure to yourselves the magnificence of the scene, the smoke arising in columns from eighteen steamboats, the sun shining, and the cannon roaring from the batteries, the steamboats and vessels with all their colors displayed. I can only add it was the greatest sight I ever saw."
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