StNicholas . dan-gerous, for hostile Indians lurked in the often stuck fast in the mire, or brokedown on corduroy roads made of logs laid sideby side in the mud. The heavy stage-coach ofearly times, although it made great show of speedwhen dashing through a village, was as long inlumbering from New York to Boston as a mod-ern express train is in crossing the continent. Ingreat contrast with the present mode of travelingwas the journey made by Thomas Jefferson, inthe year 1775, when he went in a carriage fromWilliamsburg, Virginia, to Philadelphia. He wasten days on the road, and t
StNicholas . dan-gerous, for hostile Indians lurked in the often stuck fast in the mire, or brokedown on corduroy roads made of logs laid sideby side in the mud. The heavy stage-coach ofearly times, although it made great show of speedwhen dashing through a village, was as long inlumbering from New York to Boston as a mod-ern express train is in crossing the continent. Ingreat contrast with the present mode of travelingwas the journey made by Thomas Jefferson, inthe year 1775, when he went in a carriage fromWilliamsburg, Virginia, to Philadelphia. He wasten days on the road, and twice was obliged tohire a guide, to show the way to the largest citjin the country. In 1777, Elkanah Watson rode A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. 15: from Newbcrn to Wilmington, North Carolina, The life and habits of the common people wereon horseback, and not only lost his way, but extremely simple. The furniture of an ordinarywas embarrassed further by meeting a large bear, house, in 1776, was scanty, plain, and A person traveling in New England, about acentury ago, would have found there a frugal andindustrious people, dwelling generally in or nearvillages, and employed mainly in trade and might have seen, in the older towns, factories In many houses, the floor had no carpet, and thewalls of that day had no paper nor paint. Neitherpumps nor cooking-stoves were in use. The sofawas a high-backed bench of unpainted wood. Therude, low bedstead was honored almost always witha coat of green paint. The sewing-machine was I :;v^^
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