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ment was created by the imitations of the orders of 

 the New York eating-houses such as: "roast beef 

 Irare," "plum pudding both kinds of sauce," etc. 



Our cabins were not the most comfortable, nor 

 was the floor of the dining saloon too soft for some 

 of our city men, but we slept soundly from one 

 until four; took breakfast at five, and at eight were 

 driving in the quiet, dignified streets of Phila- 

 delphia towards the Schuylkill. Very cold 

 weather had followed us, and the heavy north- 

 wester of the day previous retarded our progress 

 across the Chesapeake from Frenchtown.^ At 

 Baltimore we took our luggage at once to the rail- 

 road station, and went to the United States and 

 Union Hotels, where for a dollar and a quarter 

 each we had supper, bed and breakfast, and went 

 ofif, all in better spirits, for Cumberland, where, 

 after a miserable dinner and supper combined, we 

 packed into fourteen stages, having paid nearly an 

 average of two dollars each for extra luggage, 

 fifty pounds being the regular allowance for each 

 man. 



Feb. lOth. Fortunately we had a full moon, 

 and as the mountains were all ice and snow it was 



1 Frenchtown was the western terminus of the New Castle 

 and Frenchtown Railroad, one of the first railroads built in the 

 United States and a part of the early route between the East 

 and the West. With the passing of the road, the town entirely 

 disappeared. It was located at the head of the Elk River 

 branch of Chesapeake Bay, below the present site of Elkton. 



