Excerpt from Jared Sparks and Alexis De Tocqueville A letter from Tocqueville to Sparks was written on that journey westward which President Gilman has so graphi cally described in his introduction to the Century edition Of Democracy in America, Vol. I, xii: After crossing the Alleghanies, at the beginning Of a severe winter, they pro ceeded by way of Wheeling to Cincinnati. The river was full of ice. The steamer came into great perils. A land ing was made at Westport, Kentucky, and the travelers, find ing no equipage, walked to Louisville, whence they took a stage for Nashville. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.