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at 9 o'clock by way of Newark and Trenton, they rather 

 prefer that you should not go on the Amboy route where 

 they are obliged by charter to carry you for $3, and so 

 they hurry off before the Boston passengers can get on 

 board. 



If you would go up the North river, you must hasten 

 about a dozen squares up the river to find the morning 

 boat, and fare of a dollar and a half to Albany. 



Or if you would take things more cooly, you can spend 

 the day in New York, and about these days, go on board 

 of one of the most splendid steamers I ever saw, fitted up 

 in all the luxury of a palace, with luxurious and costly 

 Carpets, Pianos, Sofas, Ottomans, Divans and divers 

 costly things, such as appertain to and hath often been 

 described by other scribblers as some of the "fixens" of 

 the Oregon, and while you march through her 300 feet 

 cabins, and view yourself in her eight hundred dollar 

 Looking Glasses, you are traveling an hundred and forty 

 miles in 8 hours, for twenty-five cents — provided you 

 take not supper or bed. But if you are not very hungry, 

 it will be gratifying to see how much silver, china and 

 cut glass, spread upon fine clean linen, and loaded with 

 rich viands, you can enjoy the sight and taste of for fifty 

 cents — And then if you have lived as long as I have, and 

 found as many short births to curl up your length in, you 

 will not begrudge another fifty cents for the luxury of a 

 clean, yea, luxuriously clean birth in which you can 

 stretch your utmost length and have breadth according. 



Leaving New York at 6 and arriving at Albany at 2 

 or 3 o'clock, having previously given another shilling to 

 have your trunk safely taken care of on the boat, you 

 can keep your bed quietly till day-light, and then if bound 

 for Buffalo and all along shore, get up, get washed and 

 shaved in a very neat barber's shop on board, give your 

 baggage in charge of the railroad baggage carrier, and 

 he will take it "free of charge" to the depot, while you 

 seat yourself in a comfortable carriage, and ride to as 

 good a hotel as can be found in any other city, take 



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