Chapter

 1 I     |           formidable engines of the American artillery.~This fact need
 2 I     |   transatlantic rivals.~Now when an American has an idea, he directly
 3 I     |             directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be
 4 I     |           World are contrary to our American habits of thought. Those
 5 I     |            should not profit by it. American susceptibility is fast declining,
 6 II    |         screwed upon the head of an American.~Just when the deep-toned
 7 II    |        translated from the New York American, related how Sir John Herschel,
 8 II    |            brochure, the work of an American named Locke, had a great
 9 II    |           was the work of a popular American author— I mean Edgar Poe!”~“
10 III   |             vociferations which the American language is capable of supplying.
11 III   |              Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted
12 VI    |        knowledge possessed by every American on the subject, and of which
13 X     |             MILLIONS OF FRIENDS~The American public took a lively interest
14 XI    |           parallel, on reaching the American coast, traverses the peninsula
15 XI    |             while the Times and the American Review espoused the cause
16 XI    |             pure metal.~To this the American Review replied that the
17 XI    |        enterprise being essentially American, it ought not to be attempted
18 XI    |    attempted upon other than purely American territory.~To these words
19 XI    |        these words Texas retorted, “American! are we not as much so as
20 XII   |           the matter being a purely American affair, to render it one
21 XII   |  contribution of Switzerland to the American work. One must freely admit
22 XVII  |             to Newfoundland and the American Mainland, arrived at the
23 XX    |           an active figure, with an American “goatee” beard. Profiting
24 XXI   |         appropriate expression, for American beds rival marble or granite
25 XXIV  | difficulties of all kinds which the American engineers had to surmount,
26 XXIV  |        these innumerable obstacles, American genius triumphed. In less
27 XXVI  |          All the various classes of American society were mingled together
28 XXVIII|       formed at Baltimore after the American war, conceived the idea
29 II    |            before seen anything so “American.”~[1] This is a purely French
30 II    |           minutes since we left the American continent.”~“Only thirteen
31 III   |         bread and butter, after the American fashion.~The beverage was
32 XX    |             only 200 miles from the American coast?”~“Certainly, Bronsfield,
33 XX    |            like that supporting the American cable between Valentia and
34 XX    |             about 200 miles off the American coast, following that long
35 XX    |       enterprise, and one worthy of American genius.~To the corvette
36 XXI   |             the result of the great American experiment. We will not
37 XXII  |             be invented, then made. American engineers could not be troubled
38 XXII  |             crew. That flag was the American flag!~At this moment a perfect
39 XXIII |             of the globe toward the American shores, would they leave
40 XXIII |           conquerors, worthy of the American people, and under such conditions
41 XXIII |       admiring vociferations of the American language, the train left
42 XXIII |            And as it is part of the American temperament to foresee everything
43 Not   |            have been changed to the American spelling aluminum.~>I decided
44 Not   |            charm. I don’t know what American or English usage was >at