Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LETTER I To Sir Frederic Waller
- LETTER II To the Baron Von Kemperfelt
- LETTER III To the Same
- LETTER IV To the Same
- LETTER V To Sir Edward Waller, Bart
- LETTER VI To the Same
- LETTER VII To the Same
- LETTER VIII To the Baron Von Kemperfelt
- LETTER IX To the Count Jules de Béthizy
- LETTER X To the Same
- LETTER XI To the Same
- LETTER XII To the Same
- LETTER XIII To the Same
- LETTER XIV To Sir Edward Waller, Bart
- LETTER XV To the Same
- LETTER XVI To the Same
- LETTER XVII To the Same
- NOTES
LETTER VI - To the Same
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LETTER I To Sir Frederic Waller
- LETTER II To the Baron Von Kemperfelt
- LETTER III To the Same
- LETTER IV To the Same
- LETTER V To Sir Edward Waller, Bart
- LETTER VI To the Same
- LETTER VII To the Same
- LETTER VIII To the Baron Von Kemperfelt
- LETTER IX To the Count Jules de Béthizy
- LETTER X To the Same
- LETTER XI To the Same
- LETTER XII To the Same
- LETTER XIII To the Same
- LETTER XIV To Sir Edward Waller, Bart
- LETTER XV To the Same
- LETTER XVI To the Same
- LETTER XVII To the Same
- NOTES
Summary
Although stages, as the public coaches are, by corruption, called in this country, run on most of the roads travelled in my recent journey, I decided to make the excursion, at a little cost, in a private conveyance. A neat, light, and rather elegant pleasure-waggon on horizontal springs, with a driver and a pair of fleet, well-formed horses, were procured for five dollars a day. A coach might have been had for the same sum. This price, however, was the highest, and included every charge. There was ample room for Fritz and myself, with what baggage we needed, and a vacant seat by the side of the coachman. Capacious leather tops protected us from the weather, and good aprons could, if necessary, cover our feet. In short, the vehicle, which is exceedingly common here, is not unlike what is called a double, or travelling, phaëton, in England. You are to remember, there is no travelling post in America. Relays of horses can certainly be had, between the principal towns, at a reasonably short notice; but the great facility, rapidity, ease, and cheapness of communication by steam-boats, will probably for a long time prevent posting from coming into fashion.
We left Manhattan island, on which New York stands, by a long wooden bridge that connects it with the adjacent county of West-Chester.
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- Notions of the AmericansPicked Up by a Travelling Bachelor, pp. 92 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1828