Crossing the Hudson river to Jersey City in one of the magnificent ferries described, we started from the terminal station there. By the bye, the word station is not used in the States; dēpot, pronounced as written, does duty for it. I was surprised how, in many ways, the language used in America differs from our English. I will give a few examples: A cock is a rooster--biscuits, crackers--deficiency, shortage--put in prison, jailed--drapery, dry goods--cabman, hackman--horses' reins, lines--sleepers under rails, tyes--guard, conductor--cabin, state room--engine-driver, engineer--funnel, smoke-stack--engine, locomotive--to post, to mail--sending by rail, to ship--clergyman, minister--to harness, to hitch--to think, to guess--to do, to fix--to carry on any business, to run--barmaid, bar-tender--public house, saloon--many, quite a few--and pages might be so filled. Doubtless the language, the idioms vary more and more yearly, and probably the pronunciation also. You do meet Americans, travelled ones, who have no nasal twang, but otherwise the nationality, partly by that, partly by the way occasional words are pronounced, is easily recognized. Some of the Americans seem to forget that England was the birthplace of the English language. One said to me, when pronunciation was one day the subject under discussion between us, "Very true, we do pronounce many words differently, and I can always recognize your countrymen by the British accent they use when speaking our language." I laughed, and remarked that unless I mistook, _we_ had spoken it before Americans existed. He did not answer; it seemed to strike him as a new view of the subject, and he ruminated!