Free Academy
WEST POINT. Military Academy
Anecdote, &c.
NEW YORK

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Here travelling ceases, and the remaining Chapters are devoted to the
discussion of subjects which I trust may interest the reader.


CHAPTER XXIII.

_Watery Highways and Metallic Intercourse_.

Area of Lakes, and Tonnage thereon
Mississippi--Produce borne and destroyed
Mr. Douglas and Custom Houses
A Great Party Doctrine
Erie Canal--Barn-burners and Hunkers
Railways--United States and England
Telegraph
Systems of Telegraph

CHAPTER XXIV.

_America's Press and England's Censor_.

Issues of the Press