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square, throwing up powerful jets of water high 

 enough to wash the statue. 



From Chambersburg we went on by railway at 

 the rate of fourteen miles an hour, only slackening 

 our pace when we passed through the middle of 

 towns, such as Shippensburg and Carlisle, where we 

 had the amusement of looking from the cars into the 

 shop windows. 



On reaching the Susquehanna we came in sight of 

 Harrisburg, the seat of Legislature of Pennsylvania, 

 a cheerful town, which makes a handsome appear 

 ance at a distance, with its numerous spires and 

 domes. The railway bridge over the river had been 

 burnt down, and the old bridge carried away by a 

 recent freshet, when large fragments of ice were 

 borne down against the piers. 



Among the passengers in the railway to Phila 

 delphia, was an American naval officer, who had just 

 returned from service on the coast of Africa, fully 

 persuaded that the efforts made by the English and 

 United States fleets to put down the slave-trade, 

 had increased the misery and loss of life of the 

 negroes without tending to check the traffic, which 

 might, he thought, have been nearly put an end to 

 before now, if England and other countries had spent 

 an equally enormous sum of money in forming set 

 tlements such as Liberia ; although he admitted 

 that negroes from the United States, whose families 

 had been acclimatised in America for several genera 

 tions, and who settled in Liberia, were cut off by 

 fever almost as rapidly as Europeans. 



Returning to Philadelphia, after an absence of six 



