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n a state “"ided consumption, and the remainder are
fitly likened sur fashionable women when haggard and
jaded with th, dissipation of a London season. There,
haven't oui-irolloped Mrs, Tr-ilope, and overhauled even
Basil Hall p
“But leaving the physique for the morale. My estimate
f American character *~ = contrary to my expectations,
 bv this visi. “Wee —v previons esteem
for the qualities Y myself in love with
"heir intelligence, t; 1 the decorous selfrespect
 that actuate: 1 -lageen, “he very genius of activity
seems to have found © 9+ bode in the souls of this restless
aud energetic race .-w have not, ’tis true, the force of
Englishmen in perso} veight or strength, but they have
compensated for this © 5 ai- aoe hy quickening the momentum
of their enterprises favour of celerity of action
and the saving of tim. -+ d, speed, speed, is the motto
that is stamped ia te fom of their ships and steamboats,
m the breed of their res, (ad the light construction of
Sheir waggons and cartr: and in the ten thousand conbrivances
 that are met with here whether for the abridging
of the labour of monthy or minutes, whether a high-pressure
Sngine or a patent boot-juck. Allis done in pursuit of one
Common object, the economy of time We like to speculate
pon the future, ang I have sometimes tried to conjecture
what; the industry and ingenuity and activity of that future
people of New Holland, or of some cther at present unknown
continent, will amount to wallush ll surpass and supersede
the Yankees in the carver of -rovements, as effectually as
these have done the native. "11 World. They must
be a race that will |, ral vent) with food and sleep
altogether, for th, | aericer Lo= cortawal, discovered the
winimum ime thy i, required for the services of their
beds an. boards. Their mechanical engines must work

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