cam_E_GoldRushLetter_B017_F012_001A

750 –
Account of trip
from New Orleans
to San Francisco

San Francisco April 22^d 1854

Dear Sister A –
As it has not been convenient
for me to write you ere this I trust
you will excuse my long silence and
to make atonement I will write you a
long letter this time and thinking perhaps
it would interest you I will give you
a little account of my trip from New Orleans
to San Francisco.

Well as you are aware we left Orleans
the 22^d ult and after a pleasant trip of
7 days with but little of interest transpiring
during the voyage we arrived in Aspinwall
which by the way has a beautifull [beautiful] appearance as you
enter the romantic bay the coast of which
is covered with dense foliage.

Leaving Aspinwall on the following
morning I enjoyed one of the most novel
R. Road [Railroad] ride I ever took. The road runs
through a dense swamp and there is a
perfect mass of beautifull [beautiful] foliage on
either side of the track and such singing
of Birds and chattiring [chattering] of parrotts [parrots] was
wonderfull [wonderful] to hear and the passengers
kept up such a lively popping of revolvers
that one could almost imagine he was in
the middle of a 4^th of July. When the cars
stopped some would stray after rare flowers &
thin [then] a mischievous scamp would bother shout
at them and whin [when] the unsuspecting victim
would start in terror expecting to be
bitten by a snake his ears were greeted