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the cars for Cumberland, 170 miles, where you will ar- 

 rive for supper and sundry impositions, and then upon 

 one of the dozen stages that nightly cross the Alleghany 

 mountains, you can ride 75 miles in 15 hours to Browns- 

 ville, where you can take a most excellent steamer to 

 Pittsburgh, unless you prefer to stage on over hill and 

 dale to Wheeling. The fare from Baltimore to Pittsburg 

 is $10 for which you can get your "ticket through." 



Of course, upon all this route you must do your own 

 eating, the sleep will come of itself. If you leave New 

 York for instance on Monday morning you will sleep 

 that night at Baltimore. Tuesday night you will try to 

 sleep on the mountains, and on Wednesday night either 

 in Pittsburgh, or on a boat on the way to your own much 

 bragged of "Queen City." 



The fare from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati will be about 

 $4, and time about three days : fare and lodging included. 



And now having got you home, and your bills all told 

 and myself on the way to mine with a full account of 

 the cash outgoings, I will go to bed while you go to sleep 

 over this long account of how to get through the world. 



Solon Robinson. 



A November Voyage round the Lakes. 



[Daily Cincinnati Gazette, Nov. 19, 1845] 



On Board S. B. Missouri, Manitou Islands. 

 In Lake Michigan, Nov. 6, 1845. 

 Messrs. Editors: Ten years ago, for a man to pretend 

 to be in his right mind and at the same time talk about 

 making a trip from Buffalo to Chicago in November, 

 would be the most sure way to convince others that he 

 was crazy. But times, if not seasons, have changed. 

 True, it is not exactly a summer pleasure trip, but in this 

 go-ahead age men will go — ah, and women too; so long 

 as steamboat owners will risk their boats, they will risk 

 their lives. Though as yet we have run but little risk, 

 yet it is probably owing to the prudence and care of Capt. 



