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Coming to Michigan
It was, therefore, not without difficulty that we finally succeeded in reaching a port, for we found that the ice had worked into the canal from the lake, so as to render it almost impossible to land. At last, however, we succeeded in reaching land, and, learning from the captain that we could not leave until morning, we retired for the night. In the morning we were recommended to the "Daniel Webster" by a friend, Mr. Cospell, who had crossed the lake several times, and who stated that the boat mentioned was the safest one on the lake. Complying with his recommendation, we boarded it, but were surprised to behold the most obnoxious place I had ever witnessed. It was filled with foreigners of every description, and fairly alive with the " dregs of humanity, " whose indulgence in tobacco and liquors fraught the air with an odor too vile to be described by human language.
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