Describes a visit to Staten Island with William Barth. Transcription: if not more so. Up above [the ship Great Britain] merrily fluttering was Saint George ?s red cross, setting one ?s heart swelling with home pride. To the pier adjacent to Jersey Ferry, and after a tediously lazy hours waiting came the Staten Island Boat, and we aboard her, mounted aloft. A windy breezy healthy half hour or so, down the fresh bay, and then disembarkation. Wandered up through the straglling [straggling] little city, through copsewood, over stone up hill, Spring tokens everywhere, bright light green verdure, b
Describes a visit to Staten Island with William Barth. Transcription: if not more so. Up above [the ship Great Britain] merrily fluttering was Saint George ?s red cross, setting one ?s heart swelling with home pride. To the pier adjacent to Jersey Ferry, and after a tediously lazy hours waiting came the Staten Island Boat, and we aboard her, mounted aloft. A windy breezy healthy half hour or so, down the fresh bay, and then disembarkation. Wandered up through the straglling [straggling] little city, through copsewood, over stone up hill, Spring tokens everywhere, bright light green verdure, blossoms on trees, and here and there, snugly couching by stone or bush a little violet peeping forth. Buttercups in plenty, but not [Geoffrey] Chaucers love, the Daisy. Rambled to and fro, looking down at the view. The vessels freighted with anxious-hearted Emigrants; there riding Quarantine, the broad bay & islands Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 116, May 16, 1852 . 16 May 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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