"Recurring to my old plan of estimation, I passed on my road from Chambersburgh to Pittsburgh, being 153 miles, one hundred and three stage-waggons, drawn by four and six horses, proceeding from Philadelphia and Baltimore to Pittsburgh,--seventy-nine from Pittsburgh to Baltimore and Philadelphia,--sixty-three waggons, with families, from the several places following:--twenty from Massachusetts,--ten from the district of Maine,--fourteen from Jersey,--thirteen from Connecticut,--two from Maryland,--one from Pennsylvania,--one from England,--one from Holland,--and one from Ireland; about two hundred persons on horseback,--twenty on foot,--one beggar, one family, with their waggon, returning from Cincinnati, entirely disappointed--a circumstance which, though rare, is by no means, as some might suppose, miraculous." _Fearon's Sketches of America, 1818._ "Pittsburg is a cheap market for horses ... travellers from the east, often quit their horses here, and take the river for New Orleans, &c.; and on the contrary, those from the west proceed eastward from this place, in stages. Thus, there are constantly a number of useful hackneys on sale. The mode of selling is by auction. The auctioneer rides the animal through the streets, proclaiming with a loud voice, the biddings that are made as he passes along, and when they reach the desired point, or when nobody bids more, he closes the bargain. A complete equipment is, in the first place, a pacing horse, a blanket under the saddle, another upon it, and a pair of saddle-bags, with great-coat and umbrella strapped behind. Women of advanced age, often take long journeys in this manner, without inconvenience. Yesterday I heard a lady mentioned familiarly (with no mark of admiration) who is coming from Tennessee, twelve hundred miles, to Pittsburg with an infant; preferring horseback to boating up the river." _Birkbeck's Notes on a journey in America, 1818._ "The _horses_, in this place, are a much larger breed than those commonly raised in New-York; and as the utmost regularity in feeding and currying prevails, their appearance is well calculated to excite the admiration of strangers, from the eastward." _Thomas's Travels through the western country in 1816._ "A common mode of selling horses is for the owner to gallop through the street, announcing the amount of his last bidding. I have witnessed several crying out, 'twenty-five _dallars_,' 'twenty-five _dallars_,' twenty-five _dallars_;' and after half an hour's exercise, they have been transferred, saddle, bridle, and all, to a new bidder, for twenty-five _dallars_, fifty _sants_." _Fearon's Sketches of America, 1818._ Taverns