By cars in evening to Allyn's Point and Steamer Commonwealth to New York.

October 24. 

Friday. 12 m. — Set out for Eagleswood, Perth Amboy, N. J. 

Spent the afternoon in Worcester. 

By cars in evening to Allyn's Point and Steamer Commonwealth to New York.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 24, 1856

Steamer Commonwealth to New York. See letter to Sophia, ("to New York in the steamer Commonwealth, and, though it was so windy inland, had a perfectly smooth passage"); see also October 25, 1856. ("Saw, at Barnum's Museum, the stuffed skin of a cougar that was found floating dead in the Hudson many years ago. . . Arrived at Eagleswood, Perth Amboy, Saturday, 5 p. m., October 25th.")