298 SPOTTING ADVENTURES 



good a dinner can be had in this car as in 

 any first-rate hotel, including wines ; the cost is 

 about the same. From Chicago we travelled by 

 the Michigan Central Railway to Detroit, where 

 the whole train is embarked on board a ferry 

 steamer and disembarked again at Windsor, 

 on . the Canadian shore ; from whence we 

 continued by the Great Western Railway of 

 Canada to Buffalo. Here my companion was 

 unfortunately taken ill with a sudden attack 

 of cholera. It was night-time, and there was 

 no doctor handy, but I got him round by 

 applying fourteen mustard plasters to his 

 stomach, combined with brandy and chloro- 

 dyne inside, and he was able to go on with 

 me the next morning to Niagara. 



How any one can pretend that they are 

 disappointed with the Falls is to me in- 

 comprehensible. I can only attribute it to 

 ridiculous affectation ; to my mind, anything 

 more majestic it would be impossible to con- 

 ceive. The finest view is undoubtedly from 

 the Canadian side. The great drawback to 



