to circulate

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To travel. Used in this sense many times in a pamphlet on the "Frauds, Extortions, and Oppressions of the Railroad Monopoly in New Jersey." In comparing the rates of travel in various States, by which it is shown that the rates in New Jersey are the highest in the world, the author says:


Arriving in Maryland, a slave State, he circulates at a cost of from three to five cents per mile.

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