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1836. Cobden summed up his impressions in a long letter te
Er. 31. his brother at Manchester :—
“I am thus far on my way back again to New York,
which city I expect to reach ou the Sth inst., after completing
 a tour through Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington,
Pittsburg, Lake Erie to Buffs]: Niagar ™ Us Albany (ii
Auburn, Utica, Schenectady) and th~  =a-sticut valley to
Boston, and Lowell, etc., to-morrov + my return to New
York, I purpose giving two days t- "_adson river, going
ap to Albany one day, and returning the next; after which
I shall have two or three days for the purpose of taking
leave of my good friends in New York, previously to going
on board the Britunnia on the 16th. My journey may be
called a real pleasure trip, for without an exception or
interruption of any kind, I have enjoyed every minute of
the too, too short time allowed me for seeing this truly
magnificent country. No one has yet done justice to the
splendid scenery of America. Her lakes, rivers, forests,
and above all her cataracts are peculiarly her own, and when
I think of their superiority to all that we own in the Old
World, and, still. more, when I recollect that by a mysterious
ordinance of their Creator, these were hid from learned
ken’ till modern times, I fell into the fanciful belief that
the Western continent was brought forth at a second birth,
and intended by nature as a more perfect specimen of her
handiwork. But how in the name of breeding must we
account for the degeneracy of the human form in this otherwise
 mammoth-producing soil? The men are but sorry
descendants from the noble race that begot their ancestors ;
and as for the women! My eyes have not found one restingplace
 that deserves to be called a wholesome, blooming,
pretty woman since I Lave been here. One fourth part of
the women look as if they had just recovered from a fit of
the jaundice, another quarter would in England be termed