We were _many_ days.

We passed through Watertown, and other villages, and stopped the first night at Bethel.

This is the very place where P.T.Barnum was born, and at about this time, of whom I shall speak more particularly hereafter.

The next morning we started again on our journey, and not many hours after, arrived in Norwalk, then quite a small village, situated on Long Island Sound; at this place I saw the salt water for the first time in my life, also a small row-boat, and began to feel that I was a great traveler indeed.

The following night we stopped at Stamford, which was, as I viewed it, a great place; here I saw a few sloops on the Sound, which I thought was the greatest sight that I had ever seen.