Author: Marryat Marryat

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-03

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780267659302

Excerpt from Second Series of a Diary in America, Vol. 1: With Remarks on Its Institutions That the Americans would cavil at portions of the first part of my work, I was fully convinced, and as there are many observa tions quite new to most of them, they are by them considered to be false; but the United States, as I have before observed, com prehend an immense extent of territory, with a population running from a state of refinement down to one of positive barbarism; and although the Americans travel much, they travel the well beaten paths, in which that which is peculiar is not so likely to meet the eye or even the ear. It does not, therefore, follow that because what I remark is new to many of them, that therefore it is false. The inhabitants of the cities in the United States, (and it is those who principally visit this country, ) know as little of what is pass ing in Arkansas and Alabama as a cockney does of the manners and customs of Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.