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or country, with slighter breaches of decency or decorum, or 

 throw persons so wholly dissimilar together with less personal 

 inconvenience either to one class or another. 



" I had been accustomed to see this set down as one of the 

 chief nuisances of travelling in this country, and the conse- 

 quences greatly exaggerated; things must have improved rapidly 

 since, as far as I have hitherto gone. I protest I prefer the 

 steam-boat arrangements here to our own, and would back them 

 to be considered less objectionable by any candid traveller who 

 had fairly tested both.*' 



CARGOES OF ICE TO CALCUTTA. 



" Where will enterprise find limits ! this very season has a 

 shipment of three hundred tons of the congealed waters of this 

 pond of Massachusetts been consigned to Calcutta. Ice 

 floating on the Ganges ! IIow old Ganga would shiver and 

 shake his ears when the first crystal offering is dropped on his 

 hot bosom ! 



" Wild as the idea may at first appear of keeping such a com- 

 modity for a voyage of probably a hundred days in such lati- 

 tudes, I am informed the speculator is assured, that wilh an 

 ordinary run, enough of the cargo may be landed to pay a good 

 freight." Tyrone Power, in a note adds, " This calculation, 

 was more than realized, the loss not exceeding one-fourth on the 

 whole cargo shipped. The grateful epicures of Calcutta made 

 an oflering of a splendid cup to the merchant, in return for his 

 spirited speculation, which I believe he has this year, 1835, 

 repeated." 



HISTORICAL SCITES OF BOSTON. 



"On Hancock's Wharf, that tea-party was held which cost 

 Britain ten millions of gold, and reft from the empire one quar- 

 ter of the globe/' 



RACE COURSE ON LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK. 

 "Rode to the race-course on Long Island, this being the 

 period ot the * Full Meeting,* as it is termed. The assemblage 

 thm on the first day, appointments of the negro jockeys more 

 picturesque than race-like, ill-fitted jackets, trowsers dirty and 

 loose, or stocking-net pantaloons ditto, but tight, with Welling- 

 tons over and under, according to the taste of the rider ; or shoes 

 without stockings, or stockings without shoes, as weight may be 

 required or rejected. They sit well forward on to the withers of 

 the horses; do not seem over steady in their saddles, but cling 



