A DIARY IN AMERICA, WITH REMARKS ON ITS INSTITUTIONS. Part Second. BY CAPT. MARRYAT, C.B. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. O LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW. CHAPTER IX. SOCIETY.-WOMEN. THE women of America are unquestionably, physically, as far as beauty is concerned, and morally, of a higher standard than the men; nevertheless they have not that influence which they ought to possess. In my former remarks upon the women of America I have said, that they are the prettiest in the world, and I have put the word prettiest in italics, as I considered it a term peculiarly appropriate to the American women. In many points the Americans have, to a certain degree, arrived at that equality which they profess to covet; and in no one, perhaps, more than in the fair distribution of good looks among the women. This is easily accounted for: there is not to be found, on the |