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first-class carriage. It is evidently cheating if you take 

 different prices for the same carriage." The fellow stared 

 at me, and said he would see about it. However, nothing 

 was done, and I took the trouble to ascertain that though 

 they really took two 'prices, and regulated their charge 

 according to the appearance of the traveller, there was but 

 one carriage for us all. For some time we sped along by 

 the shores of the splendid lake, and through a good deal 

 of swamp and wildfowl-likely land. We then passed 

 several tributary streams and rivers, promising trout and 

 other fishing ; mills upon some of them, and the water 

 clear and brisk. 



Having arrived at Detroit, I there found a capital 

 hotel, kept by an excellent landlord and gentleman (Mr 

 Fellers), called the "Michigan Exchange/' to which I 

 most heartily recommend all future travellers. Having 

 left Detroit at eight a.m., we crossed the Detroit river in 

 a steamer, and then, oh ! what a comfort there was in 

 recognising English railway uniforms, and to find myself 

 on the Great 'Western line, and in Her Majesty's do 

 minions. No sooner were we in Canada than a differ 

 ence was at once perceptible in the face of the landscape. 

 Fields were better laid out and fenced, all things wore a 

 more cheerful appearance, and as to sheep, the supe 

 riority of breed was at once observable. The next piece 

 of water to Lake Michigan, along the margin of which 

 we sped, was Lake St Clare. The towns of Chatham, 

 Kingsville, and Newbury were soon passed, and then 

 we ran between woods and clearings in a sandy soil, on 

 which the fir and other forest trees grow very well. 

 To-day, at a little before noon, two ladies in black came 

 into the train, the youngest of them so fair and strictly 

 beautiful that I very nearly commenced a poem in her 



