Excerpt from The Annals of Albany, Vol. 9

While we are rejoicing over the great achievement of the day in the transmission of intelligence by electricity between distant continents and our own, it may be interesting to note the advantages of our predecessors in this respect, in less progressive times. The City Records in this volume embrace the period between the years 1726 and 1731. At that time and. for many years afterwards, it will be found that in cases of emergency, when it was necessary to have speedy communication with New York, the authorities still sent off their despatches by a canoe. The Notes from the Newspapers embrace about the same period of time a century later, when the winged messenger of news was the steam boat. These no longer boasted of going through by daylight, they now made the passage in a little more than nine hours.

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