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CHAPTER IV.. From St. George's Cross to the Stars and Stripes--Unpunctuality--

The Englishwoman in America · Isabella L. Bird — chapter 2 of 39 · ~49 words · public domain

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From St. George's Cross to the Stars and Stripes--Unpunctuality-- Incompetence--A wretched night--Colonial curiosity--The fashions--A night in a buffalo robe--A stage journey--A queer character--Politics-- Chemistry--Mathematics--Rotten bridges--A midnight arrival--Colonial ignorance--Yankee conceit--What ten-horse power chaps can do--The pestilence--The city on the rock--New Brunswick--Steamboat peculiarities --Going ahead in the eating line--A storm--Stepping ashore.

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