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CHAP. XXXVIII. 



Greejisburg to Philadelphia. Crossing the Alleghany Moun 

 tains, Scenery. Absence of Lakes. Harrisburg. 

 African Slave-trade. Railway Meeting at Philadelphia. 

 Borrowing Money for Public Works. Negro Episcopal 

 Clergyman. Washington. National Fair and Protectionist 

 Doctrines. Dog-wood in Virginia. Excursion with Dr. 

 Wyman. Natural History. Mush-rats. Migration of 

 Humming-birds to New Jersey. 



April 19. 1846. LEFT Greensburg, intending to 

 cross the Alleghany Mountains to Harrisburg, and 

 go thence to Philadelphia. We started in the even 

 ing in a large stage coach, in which were nine inside 

 passengers, so that our night journey through 

 Youngstown, Stonytown, and Shellsburg was fa 

 tiguing, and not the less so by our having twice to 

 turn out in the dark, while all the luggage was 

 shifted to a new vehicle. The last of these broke 

 down, one of the wheels having given way, and we 

 had an opportunity of witnessing the resources and 

 ingenuity displayed on such occasions by American 

 travellers. A large bough of a tree was cut off with 

 an axe, and tied on to the axletree with ropes, so as 

 to support the body of the carriage, and in this way 

 we went several miles without inconvenience. Du 

 ring one of the night transfers of our luggage a 



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