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erica. Philadelphia, 1833. Includes a steamboat journey from Pittsburg to New Orleans. _Alexander, Capt. J. E._ Transatlantic sketches. London, 1833, 2 vols. Vol. II. has an account of a trip up the river. _Stuart, James._ Three years in North America. New York, 1833, 2 vols. Vol. II. includes a voyage up the Ohio. The author takes issue, throughout, with Mrs. Trollope. _Brackenridge, H. M._ Recollections of persons and places in the West. Philadelphia, 1834. Describes river trips, during the first decade of the century. _Tudor, Henry._ Narrative of a tour [1831-32] in North America. London, 1834, 2 vols. The Ohio trip is in Vol. II. _Arfwedson, C. D._ The United States and Canada, in 1832, 1833, and 1834. London, 1834, 2 vols. In Vol. II is a report of a steamboat trip up the river. _Latrobe, Charles Joseph._ The rambler in North America. New York, 1835, 2 vols. Vol. II has an account of a descending steamboat voyage. _Anonymous._ A winter in the West. By a New Yorker. New York (2nd ed.), 1835, 2 vols. In Vol. I. is an entertaining account of a stage-coach ride in 1833, from Pittsburg to Cleveland, touching all settlements on the Upper Ohio down to Beaver River. _Nichols, Thomas L._ Forty years of American life. London, 1864, 2 vols. In Vol. I. the author tells of a steamboat tour from Pittsburg to New Orleans, in 1840. _Dickens, Charles._ American notes. New York, 1842. Dickens, in 1841, traveled in steamboats from Pittsburg to St. Louis. His dyspeptic comments on life and manners in the United States, at the time grated harshly on the ears of our people; but afterward, they grew strong and wise enough to smile at them. The book is to-day, like Mrs. Trollope's, entertaining reading for an American. _Rubio_ (pseud.). Rambles in the United States and Canada, in 1845. London, 1846. A typical English growler, who thinks America "the most disagreeable of all disagreeable countries;" nevertheless, he says of the Ohio, "a finer thousand miles of river scenery could hardly be found in the wide world." _Mackay, Alex._ The Western world; or, travels in the United States in 1846-47. London, 1849. Good for its character sketches, glimpses of slavery, and report of economic conditions. _Robertson, James._ A few months in America [winter of 1853-54]. London, n. d. Chiefl
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