12 DEPARTURE FROM BOSTON. 



CHAPTER III. 



Departure from Boston Country to Stonington New- 

 York Haarlem American mode of driving in gigs 

 Long Island Staten Island Inattention to hus- 

 bandry Cause of it Field for enterprising farmers 

 Domestic economy in New York Hospitality De- 

 parture. 



May 1841. 



AT 4 P. M. of the 8th of May I left Bos- 

 ton for New York, proceeding first by the rail- 

 way to Stonington in Connecticut, and thence 

 in the steam-boat to New York, where I ar- 

 rived at 6 o'clock the following morning, the 

 whole distance being about 250 miles. 



The country through which we passed to 

 Stonington is, near the railway, low and 

 marshy ; higher up it is rough and stony, and 

 covered with copse and young pines, the tim- 

 ber trees having evidently been all cut down 



