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and managed by men half sailors half machinists, lacking all the peculiar freedom of motion & hardy, salty appearance of our old tars of the seaboard struck me as a "decideded failure", small potatoes"--Added to this the whole concern seems to be perpetually labouring under the effect of an "awful cough" which it in vain endeavours to get rid of -- This state of the system developes itself in a decided system of ague & fever shaking and steweing?stearing? the whole affair. -- At underline_Pittsburg_any one with ordinary propensities to cleanliness are at once shocked by the coating of coal dust in which everything is enveloped-- The inhabitants are employed as it were in the Sysiphean labour of keeping themselves clean- & altho' the