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"Two mattresses and pillows. 



" Two sets bedclothes. 



" One broom. 



"One lot green sod. 



" Two thermometers. 



"Pipes, spouts, and syphons, for taking in and letting off water. 



"One long-handled dip net. 



"Two short-handled dip nets. 



" Movable steps to door of ear. 



"Sundry barrels, pails, dippers, etc. 



" Maps, with stations marked where we knew the water to be good 

 or bad. 



"Our trunks, valises, and private baggage. 



"When the oar left Charleslown there were four of us in it — Mr. W. 

 T. Perrin, of Grantville, Massachusetts, Mr. Myron Green, of Highgate, 

 Vermont, Mr. Edward Osgood, of Charlestown, New Hampshire, and 

 myself. We arrived at Albany at eleven o'clock and thirty minutes 

 p. M.. the same evening, all the fish doing well, and the water in the 

 tanks standing at forty-five degrees Fahrenheit. Here we took on the 

 forty thousand eels mentioned above, and half a ton of ice. We also 

 left Mr. M3'ron Green here to go to the New York Shad Hatching Works, 

 at Castletou, on the Hudson, and get a supply of young shad. 



" On ray urgent application to the New York Central Eailroad author- 

 ities, that road took us with their passenger train, which was due to 

 leave Albany at two o'clock and forty minutes A. M., on the same night. 

 We reached Suspension Bridge about noon, and left for Detroit, with a 

 passenger train, on the Great Western Railroad. We took on ice and 

 waler at Hamilton, Canada, and reached the boat at Detroit ferry 

 about eleven o'clock p. m. the same day — Wednesday, June fourth — all 

 the fish being in good order, except the lobsters, which were dying in 

 considerable numbers. The ferry boat being just filled, without the 

 aquarium car, they left us east of the river all night, and it being very 

 warm, I spent the rest of the night till daylight looking up ice, of which 

 I at last obtained about a ton and a half. 



"Leaving Detroit that morning — Thursday, June fifth — we proceeded 

 directl}^ to Niles, Michigan, with a passenger train, via the Michigan 

 Central Eailroad. We had now come all the way with passenger trains, 

 and had we known this beforehand, we need not have lost any time in 

 bringing on the shad; as it was, however, we expected to make slow 

 time on freight trains from Albany to Chicago, and I here arranged to 

 have the shad brought on by express from Albanj', two days after we 

 left that point. These two days we had now on our hands, and it was 

 very aggravating to be obliged to lose so much time when time was so 

 precious. There was no help for it, however, and as I thought it would 

 be better to wait part of the time on the road than to spend the whole 

 of the two days in Chicago, I had the car dropped at Niles, Michigan, 

 and we remained there till six o'clock and ten minutes the next morn- 

 ing — Friday, June sixth — when we went on to Chicago, after taking on 

 ice and water, and catching some minnows to feed the large fish with. 

 We entered Chicago about ten o'clock on Friday morning, all the fish 

 doing well, except the lobsters and eels. 



"The temperature at which I aimed to keep the different varieties of 

 fish were as follows: 



