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309 whole expressions I have just repeated--never had any education but that of the Common Primary Schools, & hence afterwards had time for reading anything but Newspapers, & never attempted to master anything except the details of their own business. This must be the case with many. Many often, however, there are, as in very well known, who have used what was acquired at the Common Primary School as a foundation for a solid & extensive structure of other acquisitions. My object is to give a correct idea of America, & of the different kinds of Americans the traveller in the United States meets with, as they were seen by myself. If unclear are made this object cannot be answered, & to what I might say wd convey only erroneous conceptions. One is generally precluded from making any reference to what one saw or heard in private houses, but there are no reasons for silence as to what took place at tabled holes?, & in railway cars, or board steamboats, & in coaches: as this was said & done in public. and, besides, most of the people who in America make laughable observations wd, considering the point from which they started, have had no observations at all to make, had then lot been cast on this side the water, or anywhere else, excepting in the United States.