12 DEPARTURE FROM BOSTON. 



CHAPTER III. 



Departure from Boston Country to Stonington New 

 YorkHaarlem 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 



