2S8 VOYAGE TO CINCINNATI. [CHAP. XXXVI. 



by flat-topped hills, 200 or 300 feet high, formed of 

 horizontal beds of sandstone or limestone, with steep 

 slopes or cliffs towards the river, and at the base of 

 these a flat terrace of gravel or loam on one or both 

 sides of the Ohio, above high-water mark. 



We made twelve miles an hour against the stream, 

 and if we were descending, the captain says, we 

 should go at the rate of eighteen miles an hour. 

 Among the passengers I saw a thin, sallow-faced, 

 anxious looking artizan, whom I mistook for a native- 

 born Yankee, holding forth to a small circle of idlers 

 about &quot;our revolution&quot; and &quot;our glorious victories 

 over the British,&quot; and calling upon all to prove them 

 selves &quot; true democrats.&quot; Soon after we started I 

 saw him take a dram, and then sitting down to cards 

 lose sixty dollars in half an hour. The officers of the 

 ship, observing this transaction, interfered and put a 

 stop to the game, giving orders to the steward not to 

 sell any more brandy to this passenger. I afterwards 

 learnt that he was an Englishman, a skilful, first- 

 rate mechanic in the iron trade at Pittsburg, who 

 had come out from Liverpool about sixteen years 

 ago. After drinking and losing all his earnings 

 at the gaming table, he has returned again and again 

 to work, and can always command high wages. He 

 has read up the history of the American revolution, 

 and at an election can harangue a mob of newly come 

 emigrants with great effect, and with all the authority 

 of a native, assuming a tone of intense nationality. 

 On other occasions I had met with a naturalised En 

 glishman of a different stamp, who might equally be 

 described as &quot;ipsis Americanis Americanior,&quot; one 



