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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- GOING AWAY, AND THE PASSAGE OUT
- CHAPTER THE FIRST GOING AWAY
- CHAPTER THE SECOND THE PASSAGE OUT
- CHAPTER THE THIRD BOSTON
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH AN AMERICAN RAILROAD. LOWELL AND ITS FACTORY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH WORCESTER. THE CONNECTICUT RIVER. HARTFORD. NEW HAVEN. NEW HAVEN TO NEW YORK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH NEW YORK
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH PHILADELPHIA, AND ITS SOLITARY PRISON
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH WASHINGTON. THE LEGISLATURE, AND THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH - PHILADELPHIA, AND ITS SOLITARY PRISON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- GOING AWAY, AND THE PASSAGE OUT
- CHAPTER THE FIRST GOING AWAY
- CHAPTER THE SECOND THE PASSAGE OUT
- CHAPTER THE THIRD BOSTON
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH AN AMERICAN RAILROAD. LOWELL AND ITS FACTORY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH WORCESTER. THE CONNECTICUT RIVER. HARTFORD. NEW HAVEN. NEW HAVEN TO NEW YORK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH NEW YORK
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH PHILADELPHIA, AND ITS SOLITARY PRISON
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH WASHINGTON. THE LEGISLATURE, AND THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE
Summary
The journey from New York to Philadelphia, is made by railroad, and two ferries; and usually occupies between five and six hours. It was a fine evening when we were passengers in the train: and, watching the bright sunset from a little window near the door by which we sat, my attention was attracted to a remarkable appearance issuing from the windows of the gentlemen's car immediately in front of us, which I supposed for some time was occasioned by a number of industrious persons inside, ripping open feather-beds, and giving the feathers to the wind. At length it occurred to me that they were only spitting, which was indeed the case; though how any number of passengers which it was possible for that car to contain, could have maintained such a playful and incessant shower of expectoration, I am still at a loss to understand: notwithstanding the experience in all salivatory phenomena which I afterwards acquired.
I made acquaintance, on this journey, with a mild and modest young quaker, who opened the discourse by informing me, in a grave whisper, that his grandfather was the inventor of cold-drawn castor oil. I mention the circumstance here, thinking it probable that this is the first occasion on which the valuable medicine in question was ever used as a conversational aperient.
We reached the city, late that night.
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- American Notes for General Circulation , pp. 231 - 268Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009