young Irishman was chattering nonsense with the third.
At 9 we reach’d New-Castle, and some of us procur’d supper
and very good lodging at a small tavern instead of the Stage-house.—
23rd. The young Irishman, my bed-fellow, inform’d me that
I had been “talking Latin and the devil & all,” in my sleep, and had
started up once or twice.—
We set sail about 8 O’clock with a very favourable wind,
and at 12 we arrived at the wharf in Philadelphia.—I went to my old lodgings,
and din’d.
24th. I was call’d up this morning at 2 O’clock to take
my seat in the stage. I paid 6 dollars and gave something to the man who
call’d me up, and then got into the stage-wagon, where I found a young
man. The morning was rainy and cold. The rain clear’d off later, however,
and the country appear’d to great advantage. Every turn presented us with
a succession of charming landscapes.
We din’d at New Brunswick, and here we were join’d by
two gentlemen and a very handsome young lady.—She affected to be mightily
alarm’d at one of the horses, who was somewhat unruly, and must needs turn
about and sit with her back to them.—
Arrived at Paules Hook about 6 O’clock.—Had a tedious
passage across the river & once more enter’d
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New-York.—Found my Father’s family all in health.
June 4th. I receiv’d a letter from Mr. Van Zandt, containing
an account of the state of his child, together with a request that I would
see it.—Went to Titus’s and desir’d him to furnish me with a horse.—I got
one which gave me such a rattling as I have not had in a long time—for
it seems that he went the faster the more he was held in.—So expeditious
was he that my journey of 5 miles and back again was perform’d in about
an hour; but not without some risqué of running over people in the
street and the hazard of “spilling me off” while driving along like Johnny
Gilpin.
14th. I began to enter upon my new mode of life, which
is the following:--I make my home at my rooms,* and sleep there; but eat
at my Father’s.—
Got a slate and perform’d some other important operations.
20th. I had agreed to make one of a party to view the
magic lanthorn in the evening.—Went to Bailey’s where I found my Mother,
and after tea attended Miss Harriet to the Museum with the rest.—
* 31 Liberty Street, for which he paid £30 rent.
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