13 May 1861 – 19 May 1861

Worcester to Albany. The latter part of the day rainy. The hills come near the railroad between Westfield and Chester Village. Thereafter in Massachusetts they may be as high or higher, but are somewhat further off. The leafing is decidedly more advanced in western Massachusetts than in eastern. Apple trees are greenish. Red elder-berry is apparently just beginning to bloom. Put up at the Delavan House. Not so good as costly.

Albany to Suspension Bridge. Albany to Schenectady a level pitch pine plain with also white pine, white birch, and shad-bush in bloom, with hills at last. No houses; only two or three huts on the edge of woods without any road. ‘These were the last pitch pines that I saw on my westward journey.