A History of Travel in America Being An Outline of the Development in Modes of
A History of Travel in America Being An Outline of the Development in Modes of
Seymour Dunbar
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■Z 5 tfl S 0! «3 ^ := fa ? W) E (u iJ Oh"'-' . C ij " c "= ^ W 3 D, O A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA insight into conditions encountered by stage-coach travel- lers. He says in his narrative: "We left Albany at seven o'clock in the evening, and traveled dili- gently for seven nights and six days. The road from Albany to Sche- nectady, w^ith the exception of two or three miles, was in a horrible condition, and that west of Schenectady, until we reached Tribe's Hill, still worse. For a few miles ...in the vicinity of Palatine Church there was a gravelly road over which the driver could raise a trot, but this was a luxury experienced in but few localities and those far between. Pas- sengers walked to ease the coach every day and each night. Although they did not literally carry rails on their shoulders to pry the coach out of the ruts, they were frequently called upon to use rails for that pur- pose. Such snail-paced movements and such discomforts in travel would be regarded as unendurable now; and yet passengers were patient and some of them even cheerful, under all those ills and annoyances.
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