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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
To Reach the Show Grounds from any land¬ 
ing place, it is only necessary to strike some¬ 
where upon the track of second, or third Avenue 
railroads, or the long cars standing upon the 
4th Avenue at the northeast corner of the Park. 
From most landing points it will be best to go 
directly to the Park. A number of the hotels 
are near the Park, and as before stated, the 3d 
and 4th Avenue railroad cars leave this point. 
By going a little way up Chatham street to 
Pearl street, (in the lower right hand corner of 
10.D,) you can take the 2d Avenue cars. 
Hotels, Eating Houses and Boarding 
Places. —Upon the side of the map we have 
given the names and locations of some of the 
principal Hotels. There are, however, a great 
number of others not there named. You will 
find plenty of “ runners” who will with great 
vehemence urge the claims of this and that 
hotel, but it is safer to pay no attention to any 
of these, for, ten to one, the most miserable 
liquor shops will have the most vociferous 
“ runners.” 
At the European Motels you can secure a 
room for a day or week, for which the usual 
charge is 50 cents per day. Connected with 
these is an eating house, where you can get 
whatever you like, paying a small sum for each 
article called for. The price is always given on 
a printed “ bill of fare” which lies upon each 
table. In this way you can get a plate of steak 
including potatoes and bread, for 6 or 12 cents, 
a cup of tea or coffee for 3 or 6 cents, and 
other articles at a proportional rate. Most of 
these Hotels are designed for gentlemen only. 
You can take ladies with you to Savery’s Tem¬ 
perance House, which is on Beekman street, 
adjoining the office of the New-York Times. 
On the map you will find its location near the 
center of ll.C, just above the word “Ann.” The 
Eagle Hotel is only kept as a lodging house, 
containing a great number of small rooms, 
which are let for 25 to 50 cents per night. 
The other Hotels not included in the Euro¬ 
pean, charge so much per day for rooms and 
meals; usually no deduction is made for absence 
from meals. The Astor House, St. Nicholas, 
Metropolitan, New-York, and Prescott Hotels, 
charge $2.50 per day we believe. The others 
charge $2—some of them less. 
Very good meals or lunches can be obtained 
cheaply at numerous eating houses, where a 
printed “ bill of fare” gives you the price of any 
dish you may desire to call for. 
There are a great number of Boarding 
Houses all over the city, where you can get 
lodging and board for 75 cents to $1.25 a day. 
For the locations of these we must refer you to 
the advertising columns of the different news¬ 
papers. 
Crystal Palace. —You will of course visit 
this one day at least. It can be reached by the 
Sixth avenue railroad for 5 cents, and by omni¬ 
buses from every part of the city, for 6 cents. 
All lines of omnibusses running to the Palace 
are so marked, and you have only to get into 
one of them going north, and state to the driver 
where you wish to he left. 
Other Places op Interest. —While in the 
city you may wish to visit other places of in¬ 
terest, besides the Show and Crystal Palace. 
Ye have marked the location of several of 
these on the margin of the map, and you can 
easily find them without further directions. 
Greenwood Cemetery.—To reach this, cross 
Fulton Ferry, 12.D, for 2 cents, aud you will 
find at the Brooklyn landing,(13.F,) a car marked 
“ Greenwood Cemetery via. Court street.” Step 
into this and you will be taken to the gate of 
the Cemetery, 4 miles distant, for 4 cents. This 
is a pleasant trip which takes you through the 
south part of Brooklyn, and along the New- 
York Bay. Before starting, however, go to the 
cemetery office, No. 53 Broadway, (12.B,) or 
call upon any undertaker, and you can get a 
free ticket of admission to the grounds. Many 
strangers neglect this, and lose their journey to 
Greenwood. The precaution of requiring 
tickets is necessary to keep out gangs of 
loafers and rowdies. 
Navy Yard, 13, 14 J.—This will well repay 
a visit, and is always open to visitors. To reach 
it cross the Fulton Ferry, and take a car run¬ 
ning through “ Sands street,” and the Conductor 
will direct you to the Navy Yards. Public 
works being the property of the citizens, are 
generally open to the inspection of the owners. 
Down the Bay. — Every one having two 
hours of spare time, should go down to the east 
end of the Battery, 14.B, and take a trip on the 
Staten Island steamboat. This will give a five 
miles’ sail down the bay, and one which it is well 
worth while to make. The fare is only 6 cents 
each way. You can go and return on the same 
boat. We have not room for further particulars 
this week. 
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MONUMENT MOUNTAIN. 
The following extract is from a private letter 
from a boy, and although not designed at all for 
publication, we think it worthy of the type. 
Lenox, Mass., Sept. 6, 1854. 
Among the many days so pleasantly passed 
by us in our sojourn in “ Beautiful Berkshire,” 
none, I think, will be looked back to with 
greater pleasure, or thought of with more de¬ 
light, than our yesterday’s visit to the far-famed 
Monument Mountain. 
By nine in the morning our lunch was ready, 
the horses had come, and we were all packed 
away for our drive. The fog and mist that 
hung around us, obscured much of the fine 
scenery just about the village ; but also kept off 
the rays of the sun for a short time, till we 
reached the “ Bowl,” (Stoekbridge Lake.) It 
was then that “ old Sol” burst out with all his 
heat, and kept us comfortably warm for the rest 
of our ride. 
No one that has not passed over the Lake 
road to Stoekbridge in the early morning, can 
appreciate the beauties from a description, or 
can form a just idea of the drive. The broad, 
level meadows stretching away to the Ponds, 
the little bubbling brooks, the tall forests of pine, 
chestnut and maple, the lovely lake itself, spark¬ 
ling in the sun, gently ruffled by the breeze, or 
calm and still on its glassy surface, the sandy 
beach, and the picturesque farm-houses scattered 
here and there, with their little clusters of build¬ 
ings, fast being filled with the harvest, must be 
all seen to be really admired, and then, how 
beautiful they are. 
Our route not lying through Stoekbridge, we 
missed one view, which in every respect, far 
surpasses all others in the road to the mountain. 
Seen from the hill-top overlooking the village, 
with the fantastic shadows playing on the sides 
and at the base of the distant Taghconic, with 
the Ilousatonic rolling in graceful curves, the 
pretty little town at our feet with the lofty hills 
towering j ust above-i n itself far exceeding Lenox 
as a place for summer residence; all combine to 
form a scene to which there is no superior, and 
hardly an equal in the region around. But the 
road we did follow, leading us along by the 
winding river, shallow now and rocky from the 
drouth, with a hill rising above our heads on the 
right, did not induce any to regret the course 
our leader had chosen. A factory, and the de¬ 
sire to visit it on the part of some of the party, 
called us aside for a short time, but glad to 
escape the buzz and hum of the machinery, we 
reentered our carriages, and were off for the 
Furnace. 
’Twas rather an unfortunate selection some 
may think for a warm day, but in reality a very 
cool place, if one would only make it so. The 
river on one hand, a stream of water playing on 
the other, and a blast of cold air in the center, 
strong enough to move a seventy-four gun ship, 
made us comfortable, but yet we were happy to 
be away. Having filled our jug with nothing 
stronger than spring water, our foaming horses 
drew us up a road constructed under the most 
unfavorable circumstances, through pastures and 
over rocks, rails, and underbrush, till finally an 
end was put to our progress by a huge hemlock 
across the path, and the weary party rested 
themselves under the trees on chestnut burrs; 
the ladies meanwhile preparing the repast on 
the ground, having selected (I should say) the 
thickest of the brambles and briars,—a most 
unaccountable taste, truly. Dinner despatched, 
we started by detachments for the top, all arriv¬ 
ing there in safety, but much fatigued, very 
warm, and little fitted for enjoying the beauties 
of the scene. 
A rest of an hour under the shade of the 
cool rocks, rendered me capable of walking 
around and examining the face of the rocks 
above, and the face of nature below, both of 
which fully equalled my expectations. Luckily 
for me I was there long before our leader made 
his appearance, and I had a fine view from the 
highest point of the precipice. The dense mass 
of shadow on the thick forest below, and beyond 
the bright sunlight spreading over fertile mea¬ 
dow's, seen from such an elevation, was pictur¬ 
esque in the extreme. The meadows and corn¬ 
fields stretching away for miles, often interrupted 
by little wooded elevations, sometimes by hills, 
the large trees scattered here and there, looking 
in the far distance like bushes, the ponds and 
lakes, few though they were, the roads seeming 
more like foot-paths than well-travelled high¬ 
ways, and the cottages embowered in shrubbery, 
make it well worth the effort of ascending the 
toilsome summits, and incurring the danger, 
whatever it may be. Towards the west the 
prospect is more confined, and not so beautiful. 
The large lake seen away in the distance high 
up among the hills, shining like silver, and the 
gradual ascent of a mountain in front, densely 
‘wooded to its summit, are the principal features 
of the scene. The rustling of the wind in the 
branches and the occasional voice of a bird or 
chatter of a squirrel, are the only sounds on this 
elevated point. 
What a contrast does this view now present 
to the one seen by the Indian hunter, before the 
land was covered with the waving fields and 
the stately houses of the white man! The hills, 
the mountains, the plains, and the valleys—the 
brooks and lakes are the same, but by what 
different circumstances are they surrounded. 
He viewed them covered with forest trees, and 
abounding in game, we see them occupied by 
the husbandman, and herds of grazing cattle. 
How many whites were there then; How 
many red men now! 
A walk, almost as wearisome as the ascent, 
soon brought us to our horses; and when fairly 
seated and ready for home, we were not long in 
reaching Lenox, tired, but pleased with our day. 
R. II. A. 
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The sum of $1,600 has been contributed for 
a monument to the late A. J. Downing. The 
commemorative shaft will be erected in the pub¬ 
lic grounds at Washington, which were laid 
out under Mr. Downing’s direction. 
