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325 than was necessary for giving up the mail bags, or whatever it might be he had to do, showed the value he attached to the passengers' time, & to his own reputation for punctuality. I believe there were times when we were not stopped for ore than thirty seconds. In a long day's journey to feel that the train is handled in this way has quite an exhilarating effect. All day long we were winding our way among the Hills of Vermont, which rose above the valleys to a height of six or seven hundred feet. Every valley had its stream. The land appeared generally to be poor, but as is usual in such cases it was very picturesque. I tried sometimes to make out why it is that five hundred miles by railway in America do not fatigue one so much as fifty in this country. More than once in America I travelled more than a thousand miles at a single stretch, but never on any occasion, in a tour of eight thousand miles by railway, did I feel, either during a journey, or after it, any thing like fatigue, or discomfort, or have any sensation to remind me that I had travelled a single mile. The only explanation I cd hit upon was that in English & European Railways you are shut up in a little box in which you cannot move about, & in which there are incessant draughts from a door & window on each side of you. The reality is that your feet instantly get cold, & cold feet affect the whole unclear disagreeably. In American cars, however, from the way in which the floors are fastened, & from there being no side doors at all, one's feet, with care, unclear, even when the thermometer is below zero, are as far from being chilled as they wd be in one's own house, of course the American cars have also a stove at each end.