Explore "Life on the Mississippi, Part 8" by Mark Twain on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
WE took passage in a Cincinnati boat for New Orleans; or on a Cincinnati boat -- either is correct; the former is the eastern form of putting it, the latter the western.
Mr. Dickens declined to agree that the Mississippi steamboats were 'magnificent,' or that they were 'floating palaces,' -- terms which had always been applied to them; terms which did not over-express the admiration with which the people viewed them.