290 DETAILS AT SANDUSKY. 



ingly wet and unsettled. A good deal of forest was also 

 passed through, thinly peopled. I reached Sandusky a little 

 after night-fall. 



The stage was nearly empty all the way from Columbus to 

 Sandusky. A young joiner travelled from Columbus to Ma 

 rion. Two striplings rode a mile or two near the village of 

 Caroline, who were rude swearing fellows, and smelling 

 strongly of onions and whisky. 



The hotel at Sandusky was small and crowded with pas 

 sengers. I found myself ushered into a small bedroom, with 

 two individuals, with a bed for each. One of the persons 

 rose in the middle of the night, smoked tobacco, and made 

 himself as disagreeable as possible. The other opened the 

 window to admit air to purify the sty. This was the only 

 unpleasant circumstance that occurred to me from sleeping in 

 apartments with others, and sufficiently illustrates how dis 

 agreeable the practice may occasionally become 



Sandusky city is a small village on Lake Erie, containing 

 perhaps five or six hundred souls, and has a considerable 

 trade. There is plenty of stone in the immediate neighbour 

 hood, and some of the buildings are of this material. I found 

 the price of beef at Sandusky was from three to five cents per 

 lb., and hind quarters of mutton four cents. Wheat was 75 

 cents per bushel. 



It was my intention to have proceeded from Sandusky to 

 Detroit by one of the steam-boats passing up Lake Erie, but 

 tempestuous gales of wind a day or two before my arrival, 

 having totally wrecked one vessel and disabled another, I 

 was detained two days in suspense. I could not go far from 

 the hotel during this period, lest a steamer should pass in the 

 interval ; and my time was in part occupied in reading Mr 

 Hamilton s beautifully written work of &quot; Men and Manners 

 in America.&quot; 



In the early part of my tour, I remarked that, without 

 sound judgment to discriminate and appreciate information, 

 the gleanings and impressions of a traveller will be as apt to 

 mislead as instruct, and his lucubrations will often be found 

 more illustrative of his own character than of the people and 

 country he visits. When penning this sentence, I had not 



