CHAPTER I.
Population of America.—An Anecdote about the Sun.—Where is the Centre of America?—Jonathan cannot get over it, nor can I.—America, the Land of Conjuring.—A Letter from Jonathan decides me to set out for the United States.
he population of America is about sixty millions—mostly colonels.
Yes, sixty millions—all alive and kicking!
If the earth is small, America is large, and the Americans are immense!
An Englishman was one day boasting to a Frenchman of the immensity of the British Empire.
"Yes, sir," he exclaimed to finish up with, "the sun never sets on the English possessions."