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try the recent progression in the governments of almost all 

 European states, and more particularly in Britain the mother- 

 country will, doubtless, tend to strengthen the principles on 

 which the Union has been formed. But human nature often 

 departs from principle, and there cannot be a doubt that aris 

 tocracy, which is already deep-rooted and flourishing amongst 

 the people, will, when aided by wealth and luxury, and their 

 inseparable evils, destroy the Union. The whole history of 

 mankind warrants such a conclusion. The event is certain, 

 but many circumstances lead me to suppose it is yet distant, 

 such as the want of entail laws, the extensive franchise, and 

 the probability of institutions altering with the progress of 

 the people. In the meantime, they have a constitution, &quot; the 

 immediate advantages of which are strongly felt, and the evils 

 latent, and comparatively remote.&quot; 1 



Seeing no prospect of a steam-boat calling at Sandusky, I 

 hired a horse in the afternoon of the second day, and rode to 

 the village of Lime, where I obtained a seat in the mail-stage 

 for Detroit. 



Arriving at Lime some time before the stage, I walked a 

 short distance to some people engaged in making cider. The 

 fruit was not crushed, as in other instances seen in the coun 

 try, but grated by a revolving cylinder, which seemed to be 

 an improved mode of extracting the juice. The grating appa 

 ratus had been manufactured at Rochester, the other parts of 

 the machine were erected on the day of my visit by a person 

 in the village ; and it is scarcely possible to conceive any thing 

 more rudely and ill-constructed than they were. On admi 

 ring the beauty of the fruit, which was brought forward in 

 waggon loads, Mr Russel, the owner of the orchard from 

 which they came, offered me grafts of any kinds I chose to 

 fix on. When he learned I was a foreigner on a tour through 

 the country, he asked me to look at the orchard, and conducted 

 me to it. He raised the trees from seed, and had planted 

 450 fourteen years ago, twenty-four feet asunder, and the 

 branches now interlope. Many of the kinds bore delicious 

 fruit, which was generally small in size, from the numbers on the 



1 Men and Manners in America. 



