LAKE ERIE. 



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 130 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 



