492 ECONOMY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

The following list of salaries will clearly exhibit the œconomical system of government in the United States:

494

General Statistical View of the United States for a Period of 20 Years.

*Since the war with Britain, however, in 1812-13, the debt has in

creased to more than 20 millions.

Leave Boston-Crowded Stage-Concord-Keene -Walpole-Newspapers-Diffusion of Knowledge and Information among the Country People-Leave New Hampshire-Enter Vermont -Origin of its Name-Stupendous Mountains -Particulars respecting Vermont-Arrive at Rutland Indisposition there-Canadian Merchant-Quaint Phrases and Expressions of the Americans-An American Language-Christian Names-Arrive at Middlebury-Vergennes -Bad Roads through the Forests—A remarkable Thief—Arrival at Burlington—Account of that Town-Meet David-Continue my Journey to St. Alban's-Cross the Lake-Chois-Potash Manufactory-Journey from thence to La Prairie-Arrive at Montreal.

On Friday, 29th April, I left Boston about four o'clock in the morning. I had taken a place the preceding day in the Burlington stage, on my return to Canada. When I put my name down at the coach-office, there were not three places taken; but when the stage called for me at Lamphear's hotel the next morning, it was literally

crowded to an overflow. At the utmost the stage should hold no more than twelve persons, including the driver, and is then considered too crowded; but this morning there were upwards of sixteen persons jammed together in the most uncomfortable manner, sitting four on a seat, or leaning back in each other's lap. There are no outside passengers to the American stages; it may therefore be easily conceived how agreeably sixteen people were huddled together in the inside.

I found it useless to remonstrate with the driver at such a flagrant imposition upon the public; for unless I chose to crowd in among the rest, I should have been under the necessity of waiting four days longer, and perhaps with as little chance of being better accommodated. I was therefore obliged to take up with a small portion of the seat on which the driver and two others sat in front, and even that was an enviable birth to those behind. The coach was also crowded with baggage, and it was with difficulty I could find room for my portmanteau.

I must do the driver the justice to say, that it was the proprietor's and not his fault; and that he did not (as is sometimes the case with the gemmen of the whip, even in England) increase the unpleasantness of our situation by insolent or abusive language: on the contrary, he was very civil and good-humoured, and strove to quiet our