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slabs of yellow, flabby flesh ; pale Mackinaw salmon, 

 and darker ones from Lake Superior; white fish, 

 the best of which were sold for six cents a pound ; 

 lake mullet, black and white bass, yellow and white 

 perch, sun-fish, northern pickerel, suckers, pike-perch, 

 cat-fish, and lake shad or lake sheepshead, called in 

 French JBossu, or humpback a very appropriate 

 appellation. These fish had been for the most part 

 taken in nets ; but black bass are captured abun- 

 dantly with the rod in the small lakes near Detroit, 

 and in Canada opposite. The principal articles sold 

 in the market, however, were strawberries and 

 hoop-skirts ; the latter being so numerous that Don 

 remarked incidentally that the inhabitants absolutely 

 skirt the market. This he evidently intended as a 

 joke. 



A few miles beyond Detroit is situated its pre- 

 tentious rival, Port Huron, which is also a flourish- 

 ing town, and has the handgomest street in the world ; 

 and opposite Port Huron are Sarnia and Point Ed- 

 wards, the termini of the Grand Trunk and the 

 Great Western railroads of Canada. We touched 

 at Point Edwards at about eleven o'clock in the 

 evening. 



America is a great place ; the people are upright, 

 virtuous, honest, enterprising, energetic, brave, in- 

 telligent, charitable and public spirited; they are 

 the finest race of men and the most beautiful and 

 cultivated women in the world, but they do not know 

 how to dine. To gobble down one's victuals, regard- 

 less of digestion or decency, is not eating like Chris- 



