58 HOTEL, 



these bed-fellows occasioned me, that I am led 

 here to notice, that the interior of an Ameri- 

 can hotel may be in woful contrast with its ex- 

 ternal appearance. 



In most towns there are to be seen two or 

 three hotels of much outward show, promising 

 great things within, but, entering any one of 

 them, you find the accommodation consists of 

 what is called a bar, being just a large tap- 

 room, thronged with people of all descriptions, 

 and a great hall in which there is every day an 

 ordinary at fixed hours breakfast usually at 

 seven, dinner at one, and supper at five o'clock. 

 This hall not only is the eating-room of stran- 

 gers, but is frequented by a great proportion 

 of the town's people, who certainly dispatch 

 every meal with wonderful celerity and in- 

 stantly depart. Private parlours there are 

 none ; and if you wish to be alone, you must 

 sit in your bedroom, but unless with much dif- 

 ficulty and grudging, you can be served with 

 nothing away from the ordinary ; for as the 

 business of the house centres there and in the 

 bar, no attention is willingly paid anywhere 



