[Lands of the Slave and the Free by Henry A. Murray]@TWC D-Link bookLands of the Slave and the Free CHAPTER VI 7/17
So thoroughly is it American enterprise, that, although the terminus of the railway is at Waterloo, the name is ignored; and Buffalo enterprise having carried forward the work, it is styled the "Buffalo, Brentford, and Goderich Line." Truly, John Bull, your colony shows very badly by the side of this same Buffalo.
Let us hope increasing intercourse may infuse a little vitality into them. The train is starting for Niagara, and I am in it, endeavouring to recal the impressions of 1826, which, being but very dim, my anticipations partake of the charm of novelty.
While in the middle of a seventh heaven of picturative fancy, the screeching of the break announces the journey's end.
As I emerge from the motley group of fellow-passengers, a sound, as of very distant thunder heard through ears stuffed with cotton, is all that announces the neighbourhood of the giant cataract.
A fly is speedily obtained, and off I start for the hotel on the Canadian side.
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