Excerpt from The Wabash, Vol. 1 of 2: Or Adventures of an English Gentleman's Family in the Interior of America Travelling, as we did, with a large family of chil dren, we were, necessarily, brought into contact with much of which a Single male traveller bears and sees nothingz - I had to make thoughtful pro vision for our slow progress in the interior, where he would have sped fearlessly onward in his stage coach or steamer. This has enabled me to describe much that he never sees. His greater independence of motion may, indeed, have Oftener thrown him into companionship with those individual oddities and entertaining scamps whom we are, sometimes, told to look upon as types of the whole American people; but the incidents of family travel have afforded interests more deep, and, probably, more genuine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.