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...than by railroads, but it takes much more time. It takes only one day to travel by railroad from Albany to Buffalo (328 English miles), by canal it takes from 8 to 14 days; by the railroad you can take 150 pounds baggage free during the warm season, by the canal only 50 pounds; on the railroad you have only to pay the expenses of one day's living, on the canal from 8 to 14 days.
6. Whoever travels from New-York to the West by way of Buffalo, generally does best, to take one of the two great railroads, which lead there from New-York; that is, the Albany and Buffalo railroad and the New-York and Erie railroad. If you choose to travel by the first mentioned, take a steamboat from New-York to Albany and there at the railroad station buy a ticket for Buffalo. But you can also take a ticket for N. York; and you do well to enquire, for that purpose, in the office of the German Society, for the Agent of the Albany and Buffalo R.R. Co. But if you choose to travel by the New-York and Erie railroad, you have merely to go to the railroad station which is on the North River, at the end of Duane-street. From there it goes at first 25 miles up the Hudson by steamboat, then by railroad in a northwest direction directly through to Dunkirk on lake Erie, and from thence by steamboat to Cleveland, Sandusky, Detroit, &c."
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