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Americans are great travellers. It almost appears as if there was something in the air of America which makes me think lightly of distances however great. I heard a Lady at Washington talking of starting in a few days for California - a journey of more than five thousand miles - as if it involved no more than a journey from London to Edinburgh. I met another Lady at a dinner table at? New Orleans who had only that day arrived from New York, a distance of nearly fifteen hundred miles; and I entered Denver with two Ladies who had been traveling continuously for about two thousand miles each; one from some new Engl