A Tour through North America by Patrick Shirreff

_Journey from New York to Philadelphia-Steam-boat-Railway Coach-Militia Muster-American and British Soldiers-Characters of Travellers-Mansion-house Hotel-Funeral-Excursion to Holmsburg-Hotel-keepers in America and Ireland-Mr W * *-Sir John Sinclair of America-Fair Mount-Naval Yard-Philadelphia-Return to New York-Face of the Country-Agricultural Details._

We left New York in a steam-boat, a little after six o'clock in the morning, and reached South Amboy, on Rariton bay, a distance of twenty-eight miles, at half-past eight. From Amboy we travelled on a railway to Bordentown, distant thirty-four miles, in carriages drawn by two horses, which were changed three times in four hours, and thence down the Delaware river, by steam, to Philadelphia, where we arrived at three o'clock.