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slabs of yellow, flabby flesh ; pale Mackinaw salmon, 

 and darker ones from Lake Superior ; white fish, 

 the best of which were sold for six cents a pound; 

 lake mullet, black and white bass, yellow and Avhite 

 perch, sun-fish, northern pickerel, suckers, pike-perch, 

 cat-fish, and lake shad or lake sheepshead, called in 

 French JBossu^ or humpback — a very appropriate 

 appellation. These fish had been for the most part 

 taken in nets ; but black bass are captured abun- 

 dantly with the rod in the small lakes near Detroit, 

 and in Canada opposite. The principal articles sold 

 in the market, however, were strawberries and 

 hoop-skirts ; the latter being so numerous that Don 

 remarked incidentally that the inhabitants absolutely 

 skirt the market. This he evidently intended as a 

 joke. 



A few miles beyond Detroit is situated its pre- 

 tentious rival. Port Huron, which is also a flourish- 

 ing town, and has the handsomest street in the world ; 

 and opposite Port Huron are Sarnia and Point Ed- 

 wards, the termini of the Grand Trunk and the 

 Great Western railroads of Canada. We touched 

 at Point Edwards at about eleven o'clock in the 

 evening. 



America is a great place ; the people are upright, 

 virtuous, honest, enterprising, energetic, brave, in- 

 telligent, charitable and public spirited; they are 

 the finest race of men and the most beautiful and 

 cultivated women in the world, but they do not know 

 how to dine. To gobble do^j^n one's victuals, regard- 

 less of digestion or decency, is not eating like Chris- 



