Rocky Mountains a Field for Sporting—Great variety and abundance of Game—Wild Fruit—Excellence of Climate in the shooting season—How the Mountains may be reached, and how much seen by the way, in 15 days from Liverpool—Cost of the Expedition—The best Camping Ground is the South Park at foot of Pike’s Peak—The Route by Chicago and Denver recommended—Other Route by St. Louis and Leavenworth—Route into the Park—The North Park easier work—The more enterprising may go to Laramie Plains—Will deteriorate every year 249 CHAPTER XIX. Hotel Cars, real First-class Carriages—An Editor on his Countrymen’s Knowledge—American Grandiloquence—Of whom this is said—Necessary to repeat some of what one hears—‘Have you seen our Forest?’—‘The Pacific Rails will carry the commerce of the world’—Large Acquaintance Americans have—An American on Letters of Introduction—Niagara—The American and Canadian Falls—What is in the mind magnifies what one sees—The Stone Trough it has chipped out—Ice Bridge—How Niagara is pronounced—A Week of Canadian Weather—A Snow-bound Party at Niagara 258 CHAPTER XX. Educational Department at Toronto—Canadian Arguments against Common Schools—A Canadian’s Opinion on Secular Schools in England—How the Canadians’ Objections are met in the United States—Upper Canadians not yet a People—Advantages possessed by Upper Canada—Service at the Romanist and Anglican Cathedrals—Unmannerly Behaviour permitted on Canadian Railways—Badness of their Carriages—Why Canada is not ‘the Land of Freedom’—Yankee Smartness in Train-driving—Picturesqueness of Vermont—Travelling on American Railways not fatiguing 269 CHAPTER XXI. Boston is the Hub of America—Mr. Ticknor—Professor Rogers and the Technological—Mr. Norton—Professor Agassiz—Mr. Appleton and Mr. Longfellow—Mr. Philbrick—A Grammar School Commemoration—Humility of the better Literary Men of Boston—Regret at leaving Boston 279 CHAPTER XXII. American Hotels—Why some People in America travel without any Luggage—Conversation at Tables-d’hôte should be encouraged—The Irish, the African, and the Chinese—Can a Republic do without a Servile Class?—What will be the ultimate Fate of these three races in America—No Children—Motives—Means— Consequences—Why many young Men and young Women make Shipwreck of Happiness in America—The course many Families run—America the Hub of the World 286 CHAPTER XXIII. On American Common Schools—Conclusion 299 INTRODUCTION.