Trip to the West and Texas comprising a journey of eight thousand miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the autumn and winter of 1834-5.

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Objects of the Trip--Albany, situation and appearance--Erie canal basin--western travellers--rail road--canal boats, packets, line boats and scows--accommodations--number of boats--mode of passing each other--tow-pathbridges--accident in crossing--Erie canal--Villages and grog-shops--Trenton falls--Ithaca falls--Taghcanic falls--Rochester--canal aqueduct--Genesee falls--Sam Patch's last leap--flouring mills--Lockport--double canal locks--deep cut--arrival at Buffalo. Page, 13