CHAPTER XIX.

Hotel Cars, real First-class Carriages—An Editor on his Countrymen’s Knowledge—American Grandiloquence—Of whom this is said—Necessary to repeat some of what one hears—‘Have you seen our Forest?’—‘The Pacific Rails will carry the commerce of the world’—Large Acquaintance Americans have—An American on Letters of Introduction—Niagara—The American and Canadian Falls—What is in the mind magnifies what one sees—The Stone Trough it has chipped out—Ice Bridge—How Niagara is pronounced—A Week of Canadian Weather—A Snow-bound Party at Niagara 258