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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 FIFTH - A JAUNT TO THE LOOKING-GLASS PRAIRIE AND BACK
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 may premise that the word Prairie is variously pronounced paraaer, parearer, and paroarer. The latter mode of pronunciation is perhaps the most in favour.
We were fourteen in all, and all young men: indeed it is a singular though very natural feature in the society of these distant settlements, that it is mainly composed of adventurous persons in the prime of life, and has very few grey heads among it. There were no ladies: the trip being a fatiguing one: and we were to start at five o'clock in the morning, punctually.
I was called at four, that I might be certain of keeping nobody waiting: and having got some bread and milk for breakfast, threw up the window and looked down into the street, expecting to see the whole party busily astir, and great preparations going on below. But as everything was very quiet, and the street presented that hopeless aspect with which five o'clock in the morning is familiar elsewhere, I deemed it as well to go to bed again, and went accordingly.
I awoke again at seven o'clock, and by that time the party had assembled, and were gathered round, one light carriage, with a very stout axletree; one something on wheels like an amateur carrier's cart; one double phaeton of great antiquity and unearthly construction; one gig with a great hole in its back and a broken head; and one rider on horseback who was to go on before.
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- American Notes for General Circulation , pp. 121 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009