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An Exciting Part of My Journey.

The 19th was one of the most exciting and dangerous day's
journey possible in any persons life and the scenes through
which we passed was full of the grand and awful

Our boat was drawn out of the canal on
cars prepared to run ^on^ the railroad to convey us over the Allegany
mountain

It was a novel scene indeed to see a canal
boat taken apart into four sections loaded with freights and
passengers and hoisted ^on^ a railroad by incline plains into the
air 1500 feet over the highest mountains and then descend
into the valley below in the same way

^On starting^ Horses were hitched to our cars and they drew
us four miles and a half and then we were at the first incline
plain which we had to asscend. Two cars were fastened
at the top of the plain to the same rope that connected
with ours at the bottom and the engine was stationed
in a building at the sumimit of the plain which
drew up and let down the cars

When all was ready the signal
was given by raising a red flag the engine was
put in motion and the cars started. The first
plain was half a mile long and raised one hundred
and eighty feet. We went up in two minutes
and I was thankful to reach the top for had
the rope broke or the fastning become untied we
should have rolled back to the bottom with a tremendious
crash

Plain No 2 raised 125 feet in half
a mile and our boat rocked badly while going up
but no accident hapened. We then continued on

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On my journey homeward I made large purchases of paper &c at

An Exciting Part of My Journey.

The 19th was one of the most exciting and dangerous day's journey possible in any persons life and the scenes through which we passed was full of the grand and awful

Our boat was drawn out of the canal on cars prepared to run on the railroad to convey us over the Allegany mountain

It was a novel scene indeed to see a canal boat taken apart into four sections loaded with freights and passengers and hoisted on a railroad by incline plains into the air 1500 feet over the highest mountains and then descend into the valley below in the same way

On starting Horses were hitched to our cars and they drew us four miles and a half and then we were at the first incline plain which we had to ascend. Two cars were fastened at the tope of the plain to the same rope that connected with ours at the bottom and the engine was stationed in a building at the summit of the plain which drew up and let down the cars

When all was ready the signal was given by raising a red flag the engine was put in motion and the cars started. The first plain was half a mile long and raised one hundred and eighty feet. We went up in two minutes and I was thankful to reach the top for had the rope broke or the fastning become untied we should have rolled back to the bottom with a tremendious crash

Plain No 2 raised 125 feet in half a mile and our boat rocked badly while going up but no accident hapened. We then continued on