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- CHAPTER THE FIRST A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. A VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL, AND A GLIMPSE OF THE CITY. A CANAL BOAT
- CHAPTER THE SECOND SOME FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL-BOAT, ITS DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AND ITS PASSENGERS. JOURNEY TO PITTSBURG ACROSS THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS. PITTSBURG
- CHAPTER THE THIRD FROM PITTSBURG TO CINCINNATI IN A WESTERN STEAM-BOAT. CINCINNATI
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH FROM CINCINNATI TO LOUISVILLE IN ANOTHER WESTERN STEAM-BOAT; AND FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS IN ANOTHER. ST. LOUIS
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH A JAUNT TO THE LOOKING-GLASS PRAIRIE AND BACK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH RETURN TO CINCINNATI. A STAGE-COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN'S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE; AND WEST POINT
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH THE PASSAGE HOME
- CHAPTER THE NINTH SLAVERY
- CHAPTER THE TENTH CONCLUDING REMARKS
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH - THE PASSAGE HOME
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER THE FIRST A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. A VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL, AND A GLIMPSE OF THE CITY. A CANAL BOAT
- CHAPTER THE SECOND SOME FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL-BOAT, ITS DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AND ITS PASSENGERS. JOURNEY TO PITTSBURG ACROSS THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS. PITTSBURG
- CHAPTER THE THIRD FROM PITTSBURG TO CINCINNATI IN A WESTERN STEAM-BOAT. CINCINNATI
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH FROM CINCINNATI TO LOUISVILLE IN ANOTHER WESTERN STEAM-BOAT; AND FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS IN ANOTHER. ST. LOUIS
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH A JAUNT TO THE LOOKING-GLASS PRAIRIE AND BACK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH RETURN TO CINCINNATI. A STAGE-COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN'S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE; AND WEST POINT
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH THE PASSAGE HOME
- CHAPTER THE NINTH SLAVERY
- CHAPTER THE TENTH CONCLUDING REMARKS
Summary
I never had so much interest before, and very likely I shall never have so much interest again, in the state of the wind, as on the long looked-for morning of Tuesday the Seventh of June. Some nautical authority had told me a day or two previous, “anything with west in it, will do;” so when I darted out of bed at daylight, and throwing up the window, was saluted by a lively breeze from the north-west which had sprung up in the nighty it came upon me so freshly, rustling with so many happy associations, that I conceived upon the spot a special regard for all airs blowing from that quarter of the compass, which I shall cherish, I dare say, until my own wind has breathed its last frail puff, and withdrawn itself for ever from the mortal calendar.
The pilot had not been slow to take advantage of this favourable weather, and the ship which yesterday had lain in such a crowded dock that she might have retired from trade for good and all, for any chance she seemed to have of going to sea, was now full sixteen miles away.
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- American Notes for General Circulation , pp. 225 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009