Produced by Anne Soulard, Tiffany Vergon, Joshua Hutchinson
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN AMERICA
BY ISABELLA LUCY BIRD
FOREWORD AND NOTES BY ANDREW HILL CLARK
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Prefatory and explanatory—The voyage out—The sentimental—The actual
—The oblivious—The medley—Practical joking—An unwelcome companion—
American patriotism—The first view—The departure.
CHAPTER II.
An inhospitable reception—Halifax and the Blue Noses—The heat— Disappointed expectations—The great departed—What the Blue Noses might be—What the coach was not—Nova Scotia and its capabilities—The roads and their annoyances—A tea dinner—A night journey and a Highland cabin —A nautical catastrophe—A joyful reunion.