Water Route on Lake Ontario

 Oswego County Whig, Oswego, N.Y.

Tuesday, July 16, 1839
   There is a somewhat different route, and a very good one, which is perhaps preferable at present to the inland one, and which those traversing our State for a second time, or who have no special inducements to pass through the heart of New York, will do well to take. It is that by Niagara Falls and Oswego.
  You step aboard a Railroad car at 9 or 10 in the morning at Buffalo; are whirled to Niagara (22 miles) in an hour and a half; visit the Great Cataract, and dine; are off at 2 by Railroad to Lewiston; a steamboat of the first class is waiting to take you to Oswego, where you are landed early the next morning, and find stages and a canal packet soliciting the honor of your company to Utica, where the stages arrive that night, and the packet in ample season for the first cars to Albany.
  You thus leave Buffalo at a late hour in the morning, view Niagara, sleep comfortably on Lake Ontario the first night, on the packet (or, if by stage in Utica) the second; on the Hudson the third, and are in New York in less than three days at an expense of something less than twenty dollars, all told. Whoever travels west or East through the State, should go by one and return by the other of the inland and Ontario routes.

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