SOLON ROBINSON, 1849 319 



Mr. Robinson's Tour. — No. 12 [13]. 



[November 7, 1849^] 



The Traveller. — No. 1. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 9:107-8; Apr., 1850] 



[November ?, 1849] 



Under this head, I propose to give a variety of little 

 items, picked up upon my travels through the United 

 States. 



First, then, I left New York, November 8th, 1849, on 

 the "Frankfort," a large, noble steamer, employed in the 

 immense freighting business between New York and 

 Philadelphia, by the railroad from South Amboy, which 

 landed my carriage and horses at that place in two hours, 

 against a heavy wind and tide. How different was the 

 passage over this 30 miles of water 20 years ago. The 

 village here has been built for the accommodation of men 

 engaged upon the railroad. On the hill above, is the 

 summer residence of Mr. John C. Stevens,- where he 

 has about 70 acres of land, which he has transformed 

 from barren sands to fruitful fields; an example that 

 might well be followed by a good many others in New 

 Jersey. 



American Pottery. — A mile further along the shore, is 

 the pottery of Mr. Cadmus,^ where every variety of 

 crockery known as "cane-colored ware," is manufactured 



* This article, written November 7, at New York, but covering 

 Robinson's travels of May 13, 1849, and following, is printed ante, 

 223 ff. 



' John C. Stevens, born Hoboken, New Jersey, September 24, 1785; 

 died June 13, 1857. Son of John Stevens, pioneer railroad builder. 

 Founder of New York Yacht Club, 1845. Owner of the yacht 

 "America" which won the international cup, 1851. Lee, Francis B., 

 New Jersey as a Colony and as a State, 3:132 (New York, 1902). 



' Probably Cornelius Cadmus, born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, in 

 1805; died at Fowlerville, Michigan. See sketch of the Cadmus 

 family in Biographical and Genealogical History of the City of 

 Newark and Essex County, New Jersey, 234-36 (New York and 

 Chicago, 1898). 



