How few reflect upon this, even for as many seconds as it takes to melt the clarified lump in the smoking bohea.

But here we are at La Fayette, which is the upper or American end of New Orleans, where steamers always stop if there are any cattle on board, which being our case, we preferred landing and taking an omnibus, to waiting for the discharge of the live-stock.

Half an hour brought us to the St.Louis Hotel, and there you may sit down a minute or two while I make some observations on the steaming in Western rivers.
The whole system and management is a most grievous reproach to the American nation.

I speak not of the architecture, which is good, nor of the absurd inconsistency in uniting such palatial appearance with such absolute discomfort, which perhaps, with their institutions and ideas, it would be very difficult to remedy.

My observations refer more to that by which human life is endangered, and the valuable produce of human labour recklessly destroyed.