Introductory--Canada and the Mason and Slidell case--Threats of annexation--Defence of Canada--Reasons for visiting the British Provinces--Illness at New York--Hostility displayed there--Monotony of New York--Hotel life--“Birds of a feather”--Nationality absorbed--Start for Canada--Railway Companions--Public credulity--A victory in the papers--History of “A Big Fight”--General Pumpkin and Jefferson Brick 1 To the Station--Stars and Stripes--Crowd at Station--Train impeded by Snow--Classic ground--“Manhattan”--“Yonkers”--Fellow-travellers and their ways--“Beauties of the Hudson”--West Point: their education, &c.--Large Towns on the banks of the Hudson--Arrive at East Albany--Delavan House--B…
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