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CHAPTER III. 



JOUftNEY FROM BALTIMORE TO BUFFALO AND CA 

 NADA, IN THE STEAM BOAT, TO THE HEAD OF 

 THE BAY BY LAND TO PHILADELPHIA MAN 

 NERS, PRODUCE, AND CULTIVATION OF THE COUN 

 TRY FURTHER PROCEEDINGS. 



June 14. At five in the afternoon I started with my 

 luggage, and after a pleasant run, arrived at French Town, 

 at one o clock this morn ; till dark it was pleasant, being 

 covered from the sun by an awning, and hardly a ruffle 

 on the water. After eating a cracker or two (biscuits), and 

 drinking some iced water, we turned in till we came to 

 shore, where we found the stages waiting, into which we 

 hurried after fixing our trunks behind. Coaches in America 

 are like strong gentlemen s carriages, or hackney coaches, 

 carrying no outside passengers. The road being quite still, 

 and the sides of the coach open, (they are of leather, and 

 can be opened or shut at pleasure), I amused myself by 

 observing the motions of the numerous &quot; fire bobs&quot; (flies) 

 flashing in the air like candles. Arrived at Newcastle on 

 the Delaware, at day break, eighteen miles from our disem 

 barkation. A canal is now cutting across, near here, from 

 the Chesapeak Bay. Saw some kind of hedges, like 

 thorn, on our route, and some poor land and poor crops. 

 Arrived at Philadelphia between nine and ten o clock ; took 

 breakfast on board, charge 2s. 3d. dear but excellent living. 

 The Americans, I believe, live rather luxuriantly as to va 

 riety, in towns, and generally. In Baltimore, the ship car 

 penter with whom I boarded, had a roast turkey once or 

 tu-ice a week, fowls, beef steaks, ham, sausages, and a kind 

 of u pudding,&quot; similar to the latter ; pies, soup, fish, &c. 

 A variety of the above formed every meal, and generally 

 at least three kinds of vegetables, with coffee or tea at 

 breakfast and supper. Breakfast at eight, dine at twelve, 

 and sup at sunset in summer, and six o clock in winter. 

 Bread baked less, and meat generally cooked more, than is 

 customary in England. Too many of the Americans (and 

 also emigrants) are whiskey drinkers to excess; and though 

 they are seldom seen drunk, when on a &quot; scale,&quot; or drink 

 ing frolic, are often seen near half-and-half, as it is termed 



