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134 immediately left my seat, & went to the outside of the car. I found we were passing through a cedar swamp on a tressle-bridge of many miles in length. We passed through several such swamps in the course of that day. And wherever this was the case, the trees of which the swamps were just as full as the dry land, were always covered with this moss. Old trees were entirely enveloped in it to the extremities of their branches. As you approach the Gulf the trees on the dry land as well as those in swamps are shrouded in it. Its streamers are occasionally two yards long near the coast. It is of a pale ashes colour, & gives you the idea of the accumulated cobwebs of a thousand years.

    American Ladies having been well broken in to the publicity of their

system of Railway travelling, make the best of it, & seem quite unconcerned about what wd appear to those unused to it, its disagreeable incidents. Never but with one exception, did I pass a night on an American railway, without finding a sleeping-car attached to the train. It was in the South, & there happened to be about 40 people in the car of whom eight or ten were married Ladies travelling with their husbands. Like everybody one sees in America they were young; & of course as all American young Ladies are, were better looking than the generality of the fair sex. English Ladies wd probably under circumstances of so much publicity have unnecessarily & unwisely endeavoured to keep awake. But their American sisters passed the night as comfortably as might be, each laying her head on her husbands shoulder for a pillow, & with their arms round each other, or with their hands locked together. In the morning when the train stopped an hour for breakfast they made their toilette in the carriage, there being generally abundance of water in a railway car, with a mug to drink from, & a basin to wash in. They appeared all to have with them brushes & combs; & towels & soap.