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his own country or if that shall be called to 

 his mind, it will probably be by a difference 

 only in the personal appearance of the natives 

 of the two countries. 



In rural districts this dissimilarity in exte- 

 rior appearance is not so striking as in the ci- 

 ties. But in the latter the men generally are 

 more sallow, and care-worn, and less robust 

 than Englishmen and there also, in the 

 greater number of females, there is a very ob- 

 vious appearance of languor and delicacy of 

 frame, while the bloom and vivacity of coun- 

 tenance, the elastic gait and rounded form of 

 an English beauty, are hardly to be met with. 

 These distinctive qualities are in America the 

 effects of climate, heightened in the case of fe- 

 males by the most exemplary domestic habits, 

 and consequent sedentariness. 



It cannot perhaps be said, that in Britain 

 there is any deficiency of chivalrous bearing 

 towards the fair sex, but I remarked of Ame- 

 rica that this sort of feeling passes through all 

 ranks more obviously than I had met with it at 

 home. Every man here, rich or poor, seems 



