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  Dickens, in 184x, traveled in steamboats from Pittsburg to
St. Louis. His dyspeptic comments on life and manners in
the United States, at the time grated harshly on the ears of
our people; but afterward, they grew strong and wise
enough to smile at them. The book is to-day, like Mrs.
Trollope's, entertaining reading for an American.
  Rubio (pseud.). Rambles in the United
States and Canada, in 1845. London, i846.
A typical English growler, who thinks America "the
most disagreeable of all disagreeable countries;" neverthe-
less, he says of the Ohio, "a finer thousand miles of river
scenery could hardly be found in the wide world."
  Mackay, Alex.     The   Western    world; or,
travels in the United States in 1846-47. Lon-
don, I 849.
Good for its character sketches, glimpses of slavery, and
report of economic conditions.
  Robertson, James. A few months in Amer-
ica [winter of 1853-54]. London, n. d.
Chiefly statistical.
  Murray, Charles Augustus. Travels in
North America. London, 1854, 2 vols.
Vol. I has the Ohio-river trip. The author is an appre-
ciative Englishman, and tells his story well.
  Murray, Henry A. Lands of the slave and
the free. London, 1855, 2 vols.
In Vol. I is an account of an Ohio-river voyage.
  Ferguson, William. America by river and
rail [in i855].    London, 1856.