Produced by Anne Soulard, Tiffany Vergon, Joshua Hutchinson
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
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 mightbe—What the coach was not—Nova Scotia and its capabilities—The roadsand 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—Awooden capital—Island politics, and their consequences—Gossip—"Blowin-time"—Religion and the clergy—The servant nuisance—Colonial society—Anevening party—An island premier—Agrarian outrage—A visit to theIndians—The pipe of peace—An Indian coquette—Country hospitality—Amissionary—A novel mode of lobster-fishing—Uncivilised life—Far away inthe woods—Starvation and dishonesty—An old Highlander and a Highlandwelcome—Hopes for the future.
From St. George's Cross to the Stars and Stripes—Unpunctuality—Incompetence—A wretched night—Colonial curiosity—The fashions—Anight in a buffalo robe—A stage journey—A queer character—Politics—Chemistry—Mathematics—Rotten bridges—A midnight arrival—Colonialignorance—Yankee conceit—What ten-horse power chaps can do—Thepestilence—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 andequine—An American church—Where chairs and bedsteads come from—Pigsand 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 ina shed—What is an alligator?—Physiognomy, and its uses—The ladies'parlour—A Chicago hotel, its inmates and its horrors—A water-drinkingpeople—The Prairie City—Progress of the West.
A vexatious incident—John Bull enraged—Woman's rights—Alligatorsbecome hosses—A popular host—Military d