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1 alcohol stove. 



1 set carpenter's tools. 



2 lanterns. 



2 hammocks. 



2 spring beds. 



2 mattresses and pillow. 



2 sets bedclothe 



1 broom. 



1 lot green sod. 



2 thermometer-.. 



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



1 long-handled dip net. 



2 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 car left Charlestown there were four of us in it — 

 .Mr. \V. T. Perrin, of Grantville, Mass. ; Mr. Myron Green, of Ilighgate, 

 Vermont; Mr. Edward Osgood, of Charlestown, X. 11., and myself. 

 We arrived at Albany at 11.30 p.m. tin' same evening, all the fish doing 

 well. ;in«l the water in the tanks standing at 45 degrees F. Here we 

 took mi the 40.000 Iv'ls mentioned above, and half a ton of ice. We 

 also left Mr. Myron Green here to go to the New York shad Hatching 

 Works, at Castleton on the Hudson, and 'jet a supply of young shad. 



<»n my urgenl application '<> the New York Central Railroad 

 authorities, that road took as with their passenger train, which was 

 due to leave Albany at 2 l'i a.m. on the same night. We reached 

 Suspension Bridge about noon and left I'm- Detroit with a passenger 

 train on the (iiv.it Western Railroad. We took on ice and water at 

 Hamilton, Canada, and reached the boal at Detroil ferry about 11 p.m. 

 the same day, Wednesday, dune 4th, all the fish being in good order, 

 except the Lobsters, which were dying in considerable numbers. The 

 ferry boat being jusl tilled, without the Aquariam Car. they left us 

 east of the river all night, and it being very warm, I spent the rest of 

 the night till daylighl looking up ice, of which I at last obtained a ton 

 and a half. 



Leaving Detroit that morning — Thursday, -Tune 5th — we pro- 

 ceeded directly to Niles, Michigan, with a passenger train, via the 

 Michigan Central Railroad. We had now come all the way with pas- 

 senger 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 Albany 

 two days alter 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 6.10 the next morning — 

 Friday, June 6th — when we went on to Chicago, after taking on ice 



