Albany, the engine having been built
by Watt & Bolton, in England.

From Mr. Lossing we obtain the following.

"The Clermont was one hundred feet long, twelve feet wide, and
seven feet deep. The following advertisement appeared in the
Albany Gazette on the 1st of September, 1807:

"The North River steamboat will leave Paulus Hook (Jersey City)
on Friday, the 4th of September, at 9 in the morning, and arrive
at Albany on Saturday at 9 in the afternoon. Provisions, good
berths, and accommodations are provided. The charge to each
passenger is as follows:

To Newburgh, 3 Dollars Time, 14 hours.
" Poughkeepsie, 4 " " 17 "
" Esopus, 5 " " 20 "
" Hudson, 5-1/2 " " 30 "
" Albany, 7 " " 36 " ."

The trip, which was made against a strong head wind, was entirely
successful. The large steamers can now make the trip from New York to
Albany in about twelve hours.

* * * * *

As I pulled easily along the banks of the river, my eyes feasted upon
the gorgeous coloring of the autumnal foliage, which formed a scene of
beauty never to be forgotten. The rapid absorption of oxygen by the
leaves in the fall months produces, in northern America, these vivid
tints which give to the country the appearance of a land covered with a
varied and brilliant garment, "a coat of many colors." A soft, hazy
light pervaded the atmosphere, while at the same time the October air
was gently exhilarating to the nervous system. At six o'clock P. M. the
canoe arrived at Hudson City, which is on the east bank of the river,
and I completed a row of thirty-eight statute miles, according to local
authority; but in reality forty-nine miles by the correct charts of the
United States Coast Survey. After storing the Maria Theresa in a shed, I
repaired to a dismal hotel for the night.

At seven o'clock the next morning the river was mantled in a dense fog,
but I pushed off and guided myself by the sounds of the running trains
on the Hudson River Railroad. This corporation does such an immense
amount of freighting that, if their freight trains were connected, a
continuous line of eighty miles would be constructed, of which sixteen
miles are always in transit day and night. Steamboats and tugs with
canal-boats in tow were groping about the river in the misty darkness,
blow