Lottery offices abound, and that species of gambling is carried to a great extent.

I saw fewer carriages in Philadelphia than either at Baltimore or Washington, but in the winter I was told they were more numerous.
Many of the best families had left the city for different watering-places, and others were daily following.

Long Branch is a fashionable bathing place on the Jersey shore, to which many resort, both from this place and from New York; the description given of the manner of bathing appeared to me rather extraordinary, but the account was confirmed by so many different people, that I could not doubt its correctness.

The shore, it seems, is too bold to admit of bathing machines, and the ladies have, therefore, recourse to another mode of ensuring the enjoyment of a sea-bath with safety.

The accommodation at Long Branch is almost entirely at large boarding-houses, where all the company live at a _table d'hote_.