THE

ENGLISH WOMAN IN AMERICA.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1856.

The right of Transiation is reserved.

LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS.

1 8 NOV 1998

CHAPTER I.

Prefatory and explanatory — The voyage out — The sentimental - The

actual The oblivious -

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The medley - Practical joking — An

unwelcome companion- American patriotism - The first view -

The departure

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CHAPTER II.

An inhospitable reception - Halifax and the Blue Noses-

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The heat

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What the

Disappointed expectations - The great departed

Blue Noses might be― What the coach was not - Nova Scotia and

its capabilities - The roads and their annoyances—A tea dinner-

A night journey and a Highland cabin A nautical catastrophe —

A joyful reunion

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The garden island Summer and winter con-

A wooden capital-Island politics, and their consequences

- Gossip - "Blowin-time"- Religion and the clergy-The ser-

vant nuisance Colonial society-An evening party- An island

premier - Agrarian outrage - A visit to the Indians- The pipe of

peace An Indian coquette - Country hospitality - A missionary

A novel mode of lobster-fishing - Uncivilised life- Far away

in the woods-Starvation and dishonesty- An old Highlander

and a Highland welcome - Hopes for the future

CHAPTER IV.

From St. George's Cross to the Stars and Stripes - Unpunctuality -

Incompetence - A wretched night Colonial curiosity

fashions-

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A night in a buffalo robe- A stage journey - A queer

character-Politics Chemistry- Mathematics- Rotten bridges

-A midnight arrival- Colonial ignorance - Yankee conceit

What ten-horse power chaps can do―The pestilence - The city

on the rock-New Brunswick-Steamboat peculiarities-Going

ahead in the eating line-A storm - Stepping ashore Page 59

CHAPTER V.

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The " 'striped pig" and

What the cars are like

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First experiences of American freedom

"Dusty Ben " A country mouse

Beauties of New England - The land of apples - A Mammoth

hotel — The rusty inkstand exiled — Eloquent eyes — Alone in a

crowd

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CHAPTER VI.

A suspected bill - A friend in need - All aboard for the Western cars

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-The wings of the wind - American politeness - A loquacious

conductor- Three minutes for refreshments - A conversation on

politics - A confession - The emigrant car - Beauties of the woods

and equine - An American church - Where chairs and bedsteads

come from Pigs and pork - A peep into Kentucky - Popular

opinions respecting slavery - The curse of America

CHAPTER VIII.

The hickory stick - Chawing up ruins A forest scene A curious

questioner - Hard and soft shells - Dangers of a ferry - The west-

ern prairies — Nocturnal detention - The Wild West and the Father

of Rivers - Breakfast in a shed - What is an alligator? - Physiog

nomy, and its uses - The ladies' parlour — A Chicago hotel, its

inmates and its horrors A water-drinking people -The Prairie

City Progress of the West

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CHAPTER IX.

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A vexatious incident John Bull enraged Woman's rights — Alli-

gators become hosses A popular host-Military display - A

mirth-provoking gun Grave reminiscences Attractions of the

·Past and present — A floating palace Black companions ——

A black baby-Externals of Buffalo The flag of England. 159

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CHAPTER X.

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A Scot

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The Place of Council - Its progress and its people- English hearts -

66 'Sebastopol is taken". Squibs and crackers - A ship on her

beam-ends- Selfishness - A mongrel city -

Constancy

rewarded-Monetary difficulties - Detention on a bridge - A

Canadian homestead - Life in the clearings - The bush on fire-

A word on farming-The "bee" and its produce― Eccentricities

of Mr. Haldimands — A ride on a troop-horse-Scotch patriotism—

An English church-The servant nuisance-Richard Cobden 182

gaieties and "doing Niagara "— - Irish drosky-drivers

of Waters". Beauties of Niagara- The picnic party

canoe-A cold shower-bath - 'The Thunder of Waters"-A magic

word "The Whirlpool"-Story of "Bloody Run”—

opinions of English ladies — A metamorphosis — The nigger guide

- A terrible situation Termination Rock Impressions of

Niagara — Juvenile precocity — A midnight journey - Street ad-

ventures in Hamilton