FOOTNOTES:
[5] In the larger boarding-houses in America, tea is not handed round, but served like a regular meal on the dining-table.
[6] This part of my friend’s journal seems to have been written in the summer of the year 1837, when, shortly after the suspension of specie payments, the country was flooded with small notes of 6¹⁄₄, 12¹⁄₂, and 25 cents, which were termed “shin-plasters.”
[7] Eight dollars a day is the pay of every member and senator in Congress.