LAKE ERIE. ^5 



numerous public buildings, and exhibiting all 

 the life and activity of a busy and thriving 

 shipping-place, from whence trade is carried 

 on with all the western and southern states. 



At nine o'clock on the llth, I embarked in 

 a steamer on Lake Erie for the town of Erie. 

 The sail was delightful, the vessel having been 

 steered near enough the land to afford a view 

 of a beautiful country enriched by cultivation 

 and enlivened by numerous handsome man- 

 sions interspersed among the fields and forests. 



At Erie, a small country town, possessing 

 no remarkable feature, I arrived at six o'clock, 

 and remained all night. 



Next morning at eight o'clock, I set off for 

 Pittsburgh, distant 1 30 miles, and, although 

 I had hoped for exemption from a repetition 

 of the trials of an American stage-coach, I here 

 found myself once more compelled to submit 

 to them, as, in travelling from Erie to Pitts- 

 burgh, I had no choice but to take my seat in 

 one of those rude and rickety machines, carry- 

 ing nine passengers all stowed inside, in three 

 rows, as formerly described, and to submit, so 



