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ing details of the prison * of the penitentiary system ; theipubUe schools ; some very g ^ P * ketches of sooiety and manners ; mk ) just enough description of some , of the beautiful scenery ha parsed through , to show us he appreciated it , better than a young Scotchis
man whom he met with returning t ^ Binative land , after a reridence of three years in Upper Canada , without having seen tfie falls of Niagara , having had , as he said himself , something ^ f more importance to attend to than to visit a waterfall * * Mr . Abdy stands pre-eminent among travellers , for the impartial mmI gentlemanly spirit in which lie enters into the eiyoyruejU pf habits aad customs different from our own , and is not infected with the true English reserve and taciturnity . He is ready an and and
all occasions t ^ j ^ n in conversation companionship with the people of evj ^^ Hbs colou r , among whom he chances to be thrown , and < QHr misses an opportunity of talking with the driver of the vemcle by which he travels , if he finds the passengers determined on silence . America , applying the word as we are in the habit of doinff only to designate the United States , is still a wide word , and H sweeping conclusions can be formed upon it . Laws , custpms ^ ana
manners , differ in the different states . The prejudice agcuxmt £ black skin is , perhaps , the most general characteristic of the rulers of the land ; ' but there are many honourable em ) tioQfl The impression , however , that is left on the mind by Mr . ^ AbdjA account , is , on the whole , decidedly favourable to the AmericwK in their social relations , always excepting the one great blot . He notices , indeed , some of the peculiarities which so deeply offended Mrs . Trollope ' s sense of delicacy and decorum ; but still the pics
ture is an agreeable one . Take as an example his first vjsit in New York : ' If first impressions have any influence upon our opinions , I could not but think favourably of the society among which I found mytelf . I WM invited to dine at a house in Laight-street . It was a family party * oon * slating of twelve or thirteen : the latter number is not connected with any superstitious feeling in that part of tliQ world . A hearty welcome .
and an unaffected manner , that put every one at once at -his ease * greeted my entrance ; and the absence of display and reserve rendered the oott * versation that passed during the evening exceedingly agreeable , i Xk *> delicate attentions I received made me forget that I was a foreigftet and an invalid . I could perceive but little difference in what I IPttfepA in what I had been accustomed to : the greater or less degie ^ H | i | Ki mality seemed to be the chief national distinction . Upon furWM ^ lft quaintance , I found that the different members of the . family vromm
much distinguished for amiable dispositions as for natural good bredi ing . Here , aa in other houses 1 visited , were signs of domealio 4 U * c ) ment , not very common in the old country . Under the same nxtfweto living the parents , their mother , and sisters , and the grown « 4 ifrrirthhnp * Whether so staking a difference between two nation * , desc ^ bd ; ttopi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 731, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/39/
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