noon
I awoke with a sense of delight in the strength and vitality which sleep had restored to me ... . I went below to breakfast and to find the way to travel to Illinois . The clerk of the hotel told me that the best route was by way of Albany , the canal , the Great Lakes to Chicago ; that when I got there I would likely find a boat or stage service to Jacksonville . I could leave at noon for Albany if I wished . Accordingly , I made ready to do so . I was entranced with the river boat . It was longer than the _ Columbia and Caledonia _ .