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Excerpt from Diary of a Visit to Newport, New York, and Philadelphia: During the Summer of 1815
Saturday, July 8th. Left New Haven at six a.m., and in nine and a quarter hours arrived at New York in the steamboat Fulton. For a time we had thick weather and rain, but at length it cleared off, and we had a' fine view of the Sound with its islands, bays, and neighboring shores. In the Nar rows and through Hell Gate, we made head almost directly against the wind, which was fresh, passing everything under sail going the same way. Our accommodations were excellent. There were, per haps, from sixty to one hundred passengers: among them, Messrs. Hillhouse, Dagget, and Theodore Dwight; Mr. Gill and family moving to Philadel phia; Mr. Mccracken, out of health, going to Europe; Gibbons and Sam Bell! Miss Ralston, of Philadelphia, returning from a visit to her friends in Middletown, a pleasant young lady.
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