American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens

American Notes for General Circulation by Charles DickensI SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the third of January eighteen-hundred-and-forty-two, I opened the door of, and put my head into, a 'state-room' on board the Britannia steam packet, twelve hundred tons burthen per register, bound for Halifax and Boston, and carrying Her Majesty's mails.