Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,

BY CARLTON & PORTER,

in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I.On the Railway[9]
II.Two Days at Niagara[17]
III.Children made happy[27]
IV.The Queen City of the Lake[40]
V.On the Rock River[54]
VI.Indian Stories[65]
VII.Second Day upon the Mississippi[87]
VIII.Owah-Menah; or the Falling Water[100]
IX.Down the Mississippi[115]
X.Fourth Day upon the Mississippi[124]
XI.A Sunday in Dubuque[134]
XII.Down the River[138]
XIII.The Picnic[151]
XIV.The Camp-meeting[158]
XV.A Sabbath-day[168]
XVI.On the Rail[178]
XVII.The Prairies[190]
XVIII.Chicago, and the Ride thither[202]
XIX.On the Lakes[208]
XX.Mackinaw and Lake Huron[218]
XXI.Collingwood[240]
XXII.A Sunday in Toronto[247]
XXIII.Once more at Niagara[255]
XXIV.Home again[263]

Illustrations.

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Falls of Minnehaha[2]
New York City[12]
Prairie du Chien[73]
Indians killing a white Family[79]
Maiden’s Rock[93]
Falls of St. Anthony[103]
Western Settler’s first Home[175]
Common Gull[237]

WHAT NORMAN SAW

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