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If there is any young botanist in your society that would be willing to com- 

 mence botanical correspondence and exchange of specimens with me, I should 

 be very glad to commence one immediately. 



To Zaccheus Collins, Esq., Philadelphia. 



There were other ways of getting to the coast in these early 

 days. An advertisement in a copy of Poulson's American Daily 

 Advertiser, July 12th, 1823, states that "The subscriber [Seth 

 Crane] respectfully informs the public that he has commenced 

 running a stage between Mount Holl}^ and Mannahawkin for the 

 accommodation of persons disposed to visit the Grouse Plains, 

 Mannahawkin or Tuckerton. The Stage will leave Mannahawkin 

 every Monday and Thursday mornings at 6 o'clock and arrive at 

 Griffith Owens' Tavern, in Mount Holly, same afternoon at 4 

 o'clock. From whence passengers will be conveyed to Burling- 

 ton on the follov/ing morning in time to meet the Steam Boat for 

 Philadelphia and Trenton. Returning will leave Mount Holly 

 ever}'- Wednesday and Saturday morning at 6, and arrive at 

 ]\'Iannahawkin same afternoon at 4 o'clock. Wliere Ladies and 

 Gentlemen can be accommodated with genteel Boarding and 

 Lodging at the moderate rate of $3 per week; and conveyed at 

 any time across the Bay to Jam.es Cranmer's, Plazleton Cran- 

 mer's or Stephen Inman's. Fare through $1.75 cents. 



A conveyance will be in readiness at Mannahawkin for Tuck- 

 erton." 



In the same paper are advertised a line of stages, and the 

 "Union" and "Good Intent" lines of four-horse carriages direct 

 to Tuckerton from Philadelphia. There was also the steamboat 

 "Delavvare," leaving Philadelphia for Cape May "at five o'clock 

 in the morning on Monday and Friday during the bathing 

 season." 



Prof. S. F. Baird, when a young man, used to visit Beesley's 

 Point, on Great Egg Harbor, by way of Cape May, going 

 down by boat and up the coast by stage. In July, 1854, hovv'ever, 

 John Cassin, of the Philadelphia Academy, in a letter to Baird, 

 tells him that a railroad to Absecon has been completed v/ith 

 stage connection for Beesley's Point, which will greatly facilitate 

 his future trips. 



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