Map of the Author's Route Map of the UNITED STATES, and CANADA, shewing The Author's Route; 1858....

VOYAGE.— ARRIVAL AT NEW YORK.— BURNING OF QUARANTINE BUILDINGS.— CABLE REJOICINGS.— DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN. New York, September 3, 1858. We landed here yesterday afternoon, at about six o'clock, after a very prosperous voyage; and, as the Southampton mail goes to-morrow, I must begin this letter to you to-night. I had fully intended writing to you daily during the voyage, but I was quite laid up for the first week with violent sea sickness, living upon water-gruel and chicken-broth. I believe I

WEST POINT.— STEAMER TO NEWPORT.— NEWPORT.— BISHOP BERKELEY.— BATHING.— ARRIVAL AT BOSTON. Brevoort House, 5th Avenue, New York, 8th Sept., 1858.         My letter to you of the 3rd instant gave you an account of our voyage, and of our first impressions of this city. In the afternoon of the 4th, William went by steamboat to West Point, on the river Hudson, and we went by railway. This was our first experience of an American Railway, and it certainly bore no comparison in comfort either to our ow

JOURNEY TO BOSTON.— BOSTON.— PRISON.— HOSPITAL.— SPRINGFIELD.— ALBANY.— TRENTON FALLS.— JOURNEY TO NIAGARA.— NIAGARA. Delavan House, Albany, Sept. 15th, 1858. I find it at present impossible to keep up my letter to you from day to day, but I am so afraid of arrears accumulating upon me that I shall begin this to-night, though it is late and we are to start early to-morrow. My last letter brought us up to our arrival at Boston, but I have not yet described to you our delightful journey there. We

NIAGARA.— MAID OF THE MIST.— ARRIVAL AT TORONTO.— TORONTO.— THOUSAND ISLANDS.— RAPIDS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE.— MONTREAL.— VICTORIA BRIDGE. Clifton Hotel, Falls of Niagara, Sept. 20th, 1858.         I intended to have wound up the description of Niagara in the letter I despatched to you two hours ago, but we returned home from our expedition this morning only five minutes before the post hour for England, so that our packet had to be hastily closed. We had rather a chapter of accidents this morning,

JOURNEY FROM MONTREAL TO QUEBEC.— QUEBEC.— FALLS OF MONTMORENCY.— ISLAND POND.— WHITE MOUNTAINS.— PORTLAND.— RETURN TO BOSTON.— HARVARD UNIVERSITY.— NEWHAVEN.— YALE UNIVERSITY.— RETURN TO NEW YORK. Portland Maine, Sept. 29th, 1858. I closed my last letter to you at Montreal, since which we have been travelling so much that I have had no time for writing till to-night. I must now, therefore, endeavour to resume the thread of my narrative, though it is a little perplexing to do so after going over

DESTRUCTION OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.— PHILADELPHIA.— CEMETERY.— GIRARD COLLEGE.— BALTIMORE.— AMERICAN LITURGY.— RETURN TO PHILADELPHIA.— PENITENTIARY.— RETURN TO NEW YORK. New York, 12th Oct. 1858. We have seen comparatively so little since I last wrote to you, that I have hesitated about sending by this mail any account of our travels; but I believe, upon the whole, it may be as well to give you an account of our movements up to this time. My last letter would tell you of our arrival at this plac

WILLIAM'S DEPARTURE.— GREENWOOD CEMETERY.— JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON.— ARRANGEMENTS FOR OUR JOURNEY TO THE FAR WEST.— TOPSY. Washington, 16th Oct. 1858. I closed my last letter to you on the 12th, and gave it to William to take to you. On the following day we bade him a sorrowful farewell, made all the more melancholy by the day being very rainy, which prevented our seeing him on board. We so very rarely see rain, that when it comes it is most depressing to our spirits, without any additional cause

WASHINGTON.— BAPTIST CLASS-MEETING.— PUBLIC BUILDINGS.— VENUS BY DAYLIGHT.— BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILWAY.— WHEELING.— ARRIVAL AT COLUMBUS. Washington, 18th Oct. 1808. I despatched my last to you the day before yesterday, and now must give you an account of our employments yesterday (Sunday, 17th instant). The morning was very hot, and very lovely, with a clear blue sky, and I wished that impertinent young lady, Emily, could see what sort of weather we have here, and how her good wishes for us are

JOURNEY FROM WHEELING TO COLUMBUS.— FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS.— MR. TYSON'S STORIES.— COLUMBUS.— PENITENTIARY.— CAPITOL.— GOVERNOR CHASE.— CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.— ARRIVAL AT CINCINNATI. Columbus, Oct. 23rd, 1858. The letter which I sent you from this place this morning will have told you of our arrival here, but it was closed in such haste that I omitted many things which I ought to have mentioned. It, moreover, carried us only to Zanesville, and I ought to have told you that the view continued ve

CINCINNATI.—MR. LONGWORTH.—GERMAN POPULATION—-"OVER THE RHINE."—ENVIRONS OF CINCINNATI.—GARDENS.—FRUITS.—COMMON SCHOOLS.—JOURNEY TO ST. LOUIS. Vincennes, Indiana, Nov. 1st, 1858. My last letter brought us up to our arrival at Cincinnati, and our passing the evening at Mr. Longworth's on the following day. Next day, Wednesday the 27th, Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Longworth's daughter, called and asked us to spend that evening also at her mother's house. She took me out in her carriage in the morning to se

ST. LOUIS.— JEFFERSON CITY.— RETURN TO ST. LOUIS.— ALTON.— SPRINGFIELD.— FIRES ON THE PRAIRIES.— CHICAGO.— GRANARIES.— PACKING HOUSES.— LAKE MICHIGAN.— ARRIVAL AT INDIANAPOLIS. Jefferson City, on the Missouri, Nov. 6th, 1858.         Here we are really in the Far West, more than 150 miles from the junction of the Missouri with the Mississippi, though still 2950 from the source of this great-grandfather of waters—for I can give it a no less venerable name. We first caught sight of it, or struck t

INDIANAPOLIS.— LOUISVILLE.— LOUISVILLE AND PORTLAND CANAL.— PORTLAND.— THE PACIFIC STEAMER.— JOURNEY TO LEXINGTON.— ASHLAND.— SLAVE PENS AT LEXINGTON.— RETURN TO CINCINNATI.— PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL RAILWAY.— RETURN TO NEW YORK. Lexington, Kentucky, Nov. 13th, 1858. My last letter was closed at Indianapolis, but despatched from Louisville. On the morning after I wrote we had time, before starting for Louisville, to take a walk through the principal streets of Indianapolis. The Capitol or state-hous

NEW YORK— ASTOR LIBRARY.— COOPER INSTITUTE.— BIBLE HOUSE.— DR. RAE— DR. TYNG.— TARRYTOWN.— ALBANY.— SLEIGHING— FINAL RETURN TO BOSTON.— HALIFAX.— VOYAGE HOME.— CONCLUSION. Albany, Nov. 27th, 1858. My last letter was despatched to you on the 23rd inst.;—that evening we dined at Mr. Aspinwall's. He has a handsome house in New York, and a large picture gallery, and as we wished to see this by daylight, we called on him after breakfast on the following morning, and had an opportunity of examining th

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