I supposed that I spoke the language that Addison wrote, and here was a Westmoreland guide, speaking a dialect which I translated into English before I could understand it, complimenting me upon my ability to speak my own tongue.
"I learned afterwards, as I journeyed on, to expect no appreciation of my country or its people.

The English are strangely deficient in curiosity.

I can scarcely imagine an Englishwoman a gossip.
"I found among all classes a knowledge of the extent of America; by the better classes its geography was understood, and its physical peculiarities.

One astronomer had bound the scientific papers from America in green morocco, as typical of a country covered by forests.
Among the most intelligent men whom I met I found an appreciation of the different characters of the States.

Everywhere Massachusetts was honored; everywhere I met the horror of the honest Englishman at the slave system; but anything like a discriminating knowledge of our public men I could not meet.