226 JOURNEY TO GREENSBURG. [CHAP. XXXVII. 



news-boy, finding I was supplied with newspapers, offered to sell &quot; 

 me a cheap American reprint of the miscellaneous works of Lord 

 Jeffrey, assuring me that &quot; it contained all the best articles he 

 had written in the Edinburg Review.&quot; 



To be once more climbing hills even of moderate height, was 

 an agreeable novelty after dwelling so long on the flat plains of 

 the Mississippi. We were on the direct road, leading across the 

 Alleghanies to Harrisburg. The scenery often reminded us of 

 England, for we were traveling on a macadamized road, and 

 passing through turnpike gates, with meadows on one side, and 

 often on the other large fields of young wheat, of an apple-green 

 color, on which a flock of sheep, with their lambs, had been 

 turned in to feed. The absence of stumps of trees in the fields 

 was something new to us, as was the non-appearance for a whole 

 day of any representative of the negro race. Here and there a 

 snake-fence, and a tall strong stubble of maize, presented a point 

 of contrast with an English landscape. In some of the water- 

 meadows the common English marigold (Caltlia palustris) was 

 in full flower. At one turn of the road, a party of men on foot 

 came in sight, each with his rifle, and they were followed, at a 

 short distance, by a wagon with women and children, and a train 

 of others laden with baggage. Our driver remarked that they 

 were &quot; movers,&quot; and I asked him if he ever knew an instance of 

 an American migrating eastward. He said that he was himself 

 the only example he ever heard of; for he was from Kentucky, 

 having come the year before to satisfy his curiosity with a sight 

 of the great Pittsburg fire. There he found a great demand for 

 work, and so was tempted to stay. 



Our road lay through East Liberty, Wilkinsburg, and Adams- 

 burg. Some day-laborers, who were breaking stones on the road, 

 told me they were receiving seventy-five cents, or three shillings, 

 a day ; and this in a country where food and fuel are much 

 cheaper than in England, although clothing is rather dearer. 



Near Turtle Creek, two farmers conducted me to a spot where 

 coal was worked, and where the undulating ground consisted of 

 sandstone, limestone, and shale, green and black, of the coal- 

 formation, precisely resembling strata of the same age in England, 



