Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
On page 59, "ever kind" should possibly be "every kind".
References on pages 157 and 163 to dates in April should perhaps beto dates in May.
On page 208, words seem to be missing from the phrase starting"probably a warrior of renown".
On page 234, "drave" should possibly be "drove".
HESPEROTHEN;
NOTES FROM THE WEST:
A RECORD OF A
RAMBLE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1881.
BY
W. H. RUSSELL, LL. D.
BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
Vol. I.
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET.
1882.
[All rights reserved.]
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
TO
HER GRACE
THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND
(COUNTESS OF CROMARTY),
THIS RECORD OF THE RECENT VISIT OF THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND
TO AMERICA,
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY
WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL.
London, Dec. 1881.
PREFACE.
On the 16th of April last, in pursuance of an arrangementto that effect which was entered into some monthsearlier with the Duke of Sutherland,[1] a small partyof gentlemen and one lady left Liverpool in theCunard Company's steamer "Gallia," with the object ofmaking a tour in the United States. Previous to theirdeparture, Mr. Henry Crosfield, the Auditor of theLondon and North-Western Railway Company, hadbeen in communication with friends in America, andhad in concert with them sketched out a general schemeto enable the visitors to traverse the Atlantic States, toextend their journey westwards and to obtain the bestpossible view of the country in the limited space of timeviat their disposal. Although all were "on pleasurebent," those of the tourists who had interests in railwayson this side of the world were naturally anxiousto study the modes of management which were practisedon the principal lines as closely as such a hurriedjourney would allow them; but the main object ofthe travellers was "to see the States"—to beholdwith their own eyes the natural features of the vastcontinent which is exercising a rapidly increasinginfluence on Great Britain and Europe itself, and toview the manners and customs of the great nationwhich even in its present enormous development givesonly the indications of a lusty youth, promising a manhoodof irresistible vigour and strength in time tocome if the body politic fulfils its early hope. To besure, the inspection could not be very close, minute,or protracted. Shooting flying is not an art givento all people, and the contemplation of man at a hotelor in a street, as one looks around in the dining-roomor out of a railw