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through, and I shall leave future visitants of the United 

 States to determine whether much he has described was reality, 

 or the fantasies of his imagination. 



My situation was different from Mr Hamilton s, not having 

 tasted any liquid but water and tea since my departure from 

 Montreal, with exception of half a glass of spirits amongst 

 water at Detroit, and the glass of wine at St Charles, formerly 

 mentioned. I do not recollect of seeing brandy on the dinner- 

 table of any steam-boat in America ; and feel quite certain that 

 neither wine nor spirits of any kind were on the table of those 

 of the Ohio and Mississippi. I did not see or hear of an 

 intoxicated person on board of any steam-vessel but those of 

 Lake Ontario. V* A public comb and hair-brush, suspended by 

 a string from the ceiling of the cabin,&quot; or placed in any other 

 position in the vessel, was not observed by me in the steam-boats 

 of America, and I am sure they did not exist in the vessels I 

 sailed with. Afterwards, I observed a hair-brush suspended by a 

 string in a passage-boat on the Erie Canal, and they are occa 

 sionally found in the bar-rooms of inferior hotels. People are 

 not, however, compelled to use them, and they are certainly an 

 accommodation to some individuals. A tooth-brush was used 

 by almost every passenger in the Helen Mar, and I remark 

 ed dozens of storekeepers at Detroit washing their teeth in 

 the mornings at the door, and in one or two instances nar 

 rowly escaped being soused with superfluous water from tum 

 blers they had been using. 



The manners of the people at St Louis, and from that place 

 to Cincinnati, are unquestionably different from the inhabi 

 tants on the shores of the Atlantic, being rougher in all 

 respects, but I did not witness any thing approaching to rude 

 ness or disgusting vulgarity amongst cabin passengers. The 

 firemen, engineers, and many of the crew of the steam-boats 

 were habitual swearers, and so were many of the stage-drivers 

 and passengers in travelling through Ohio. But this bad 

 habit did not pervade the inhabitants generally with whom I 

 came in contact. 



On landing at Cincinnati, I entered an excellent hotel in a 

 square fronting the river, the name of which I have forgotten. 

 On applying at the bar I was requested, as usual, to enter my 



