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Excerpt from Echoes From the Backwoods, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Sketches of Transatlantic Life United States. The road was vile: we were often. Obliged to turn out all hands, and sup port the top of the stage, by holding rails against it to prevent its capsizing. At last it fairly broke down; upon which the driver pulled a couple of long stakes out of the fence, and placed them across the axle-tree, to support the body of the coach. This he did so systematically, that it was evidently an every-day occurrence. To our dismay, a woman got in 'at Rome (one of the numerous towns of that name consisting of about four houses), who stated, by way of introduction, that she was troubled with wind Upon her stomach, and that riding in a coach always made her sea-sick. She was hardly seated, when she commenced roaring like a high pressure steam-engine, until she was relieved by being exceedingly ill, and we, by the driver's quietly assisting her out, and leaving. 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.