74 BUFFALO. 



CHAPTER X. 



Route to New York Buffalo Sail to Erie Departure 

 by stage for Pittsburgh The trials of that convey- 

 ance Comparison of old Scotch roads Wildness of 

 country between Erie and Pittsburgh Crops Indian 

 corn Stock Difficult ascents Arrival at Pitts- 

 burgh. 



June 1841. 



HAVING resolved to return to New York 

 by a route different from that by which I came, 

 I sailed for Lewiston at seven o'clock of the 

 morning of the 10th of June, and thence pro- 

 ceeded by the railway forty miles to Buffalo, 

 which, travelling over an uninviting country, 

 I reached about six o'clock in the evening. 



Buffalo, from " small beginnings," has risen 

 during the present century to a town of great 

 trade and wealth ; having a population of 

 20,000, with spacious streets, handsome shops, 



