They Will Do So If They Be On A Journey; But Will Not
Open Their Mouths If They Be Simply Passing Backward And Forward
Between Their Homes And Some Neighboring Town.
We soon learn the
rules on these subjects; but who make the rules?
If you cross the
Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her
before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a
railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in
your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
And now for Buffalo, and the elevators. I trust I have made it
understood that corn comes into Buffalo, not only from Chicago, of
which I have spoken specially, but from all the ports round the
lakes: Racine, Milwaukee, Grand Haven, Port Sarnia, Detroit,
Toledo, Cleveland, and many others. At these ports the produce is
generally bought and sold; but at Buffalo it is merely passed
through a gateway. It is taken from vessels of a size fitted for
the lakes, and placed in other vessels fitted for the canal. This
is the Erie Canal, which connects the lakes with the Hudson River
and with New York. The produce which passes through the Welland
Canal - the canal which connects Lake Erie and the upper lakes with
Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence - is not transhipped, seeing that
the Welland Canal, which is less than thirty miles in length, gives
a passage to vessels of 500 tons.
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