| docks to enable teams to haul
merchandise to and from the vessels. While passing along the docks I get the first glimpse of the railroad, A horse was hauling some freight cars and I could not help laughing the cars were so small and the wheels so large that they appeared to be on stilts. One thing in particular that attracted my attention was the fine horses and I must say they put the Amerivan draught horse in the shade for they are the finest I ever saw. On reaching Water Street I found I was to early for the bank was not yet open, so to pass the time I took a stroll into the heart of the city, as I walked along everything seems strange even the people seemed different but one thing in |
particular attracted my attention
was so many rosy cheeks almost everyone I met had a rosy com- plection and it puzzles me why America with so dry a climate has so few rosy cheeks while this country is so damp and foggy and would seen so much more unhea- -thy has so few colorless cheeks. Another thing which attracted my attention was the two wheeled carts which are the principal vehicles used here and the driver generally drives along as though he were going to a fire at a breakneck speed and always makes a sudden halt and several times as I walk- -ed along the pavement not think- -ing one would drive up to the curb at a breakneck speed and I would start back thinking he would drive over me. After spending |
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