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 &quot; small beginnings,&quot; 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, 



