Both of these statements are probably mere estimates, greatly exaggerated; any westerner of to-day can instance similar reports of movements to western localities, which under a strict census dwindled wofully.]

In America, with people moving around from place to place by means of stage coach, steamboat, and railroad, there has been no great chance to develop dialects, although we can instantly tell the New Englander, the southerner, or the westerner by his speech.

" "And you really think there's nothing which distinguishes the Westerner from the Easterner?" "Just the Western feeling, partner.

" Next day found the westerners on board the schooner sailing out from the harbor of New York.