: The Englishwoman in America by Bird Isabella L Isabella Lucy - United States Description and travel; Canada Description and travel; United States Social life and customs 1783-1865

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Prefatory and explanatory--The voyage out--The sentimental--The actual --The oblivious--The medley--Practical joking--An unwelcome companion-- American patriotism--The first view--The departure.

An inhospitable reception--Halifax and the Blue Noses--The heat-- Disappointed expectations--The great departed--What the 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.

Popular ignorance--The garden island--Summer and winter contrasted--A wooden capital--Island politics, and their consequences--Gossip--"Blowin- time"--Religion and the clergy--The servant 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.

From St. George's Cross to the Stars and Stripes--Unpunctuality-- Incompetence--A wretched night--Colonial curiosity--The fashions--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.

First experiences of American freedom--The "striped pig" and "Dusty Ben" --A country mouse--What the cars are like--Beauties of New England--The land of apples--A Mammoth hotel--The rusty inkstand exiled--Eloquent eyes --Alone in a crowd.

A suspected bill--A friend in need--All aboard for the Western cars-- 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--A forest on fire-- Dangers of the cars--The Queen City of the West.

The Queen City continued--Its beauties--Its inhabitants, human 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.

The hickory stick--Chawing up ruins--A forest scene--A curious questioner --Hard and soft shells--Dangers of a ferry--The western prairies-- Nocturnal detention--The Wild West and the Father of Rivers--Breakfast in a shed--What is an alligator?--Physiognomy, 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.

A vexatious incident--John Bull enraged--Woman's rights--Alligators become hosses--A popular host--Military display--A mirth-provoking gun --Grave reminiscences--Attractions of the fair--Past and present--A floating palace--Black companions--A black baby--Externals of Buffalo-- The flag of England.

The Place of Council--Its progress and its people--English hearts-- "Sebastopol is taken"--Squibs and crackers--A ship on her beam-ends-- Selfishness--A mongrel city--A Scot--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.

"I've seen nothing"--A disappointment--Incongruities--Hotel gaieties and "doing Niagara"--Irish drosky-drivers--"The Hell of Waters"--Beauties of Niagara--The picnic party--The white canoe--A cold shower-bath--"The Thunder of Waters"--A magic word--"The Whirlpool"--Story of "Bloody Run"-- Yankee opinions of English ladies--A metamorphosis--The nigger guide--A terrible situation--Termination Rock--Impressions of Niagara--Juvenile precocity--A midnight journey--Street adventures in Hamilton.

A scene at starting--That dear little Harry--The old lady and the race --Running the Rapids--An aside--Snow and discomfort--A new country--An extemporised ball--Adventure with a madman--Shooting the cataract-- First appearance of Montreal--Its characteristics--Quebec in a fog-- "Muffins"--Quebec gaieties--The pestilence--Restlessness--St. Louis and St. Roch--The shady side--Dark dens--External characteristics--Lord Elgin--Mistaking a senator.

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