1835        Hoffman, Charles Fenno. A Winter in the Far West. Vol. 2. London: Richard Bentley.

Contains a letter dated March 25th, 1834. The author is embarking upon a trip out of St. Louis on a steamboat.

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The hoarse panting of the high-pressure engines, the rattling of the drays on the paved wharfs, and the discordant cries in every tongue mingling with the song of the negro boatmen, as their wild chaunt on coming into port would rise ever and anon above the general din, made a confusion of sights and sounds that was bewildering.
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