Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile

Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile is a book by Arthur Jerome Eddy, described as a desultory narrative of a trip through New England, New York, Canada, and the West. The contents list includes, among others, chapters headed The Morgan Mystery, The Mohawk Valley and Lexington and Concord. The text says that "the man who cannot run his machine a thousand miles without expert assistance should make no pretense to being a chauffeur".

The machine used is described as "just an ordinary twelve hundred dollar single-cylinder American machine", rated eight and one-half horse-power. Several roads lead out of Pittsfield to Springfield, and the text says that if one asks a half-dozen citizens, who pretend to know, which is best, a half-dozen violently conflicting opinions will be forthcoming. The text says that the rains of the week before and the rains of the last two days had converted a road into a vast ditch, and that the travellers ran up on to the towpath, which was of sticky clay.