The liquor-counter in a “saloon.”
1829. The said album was placed in a sort of shed, near the prettiest part of the falls, in what is denominated a bar, anglicè, a tap, or grog-shop. These odious places, truth bids me say, stared us in the face every where; and that no one should mistake, the letters B, A, R, were written up most conspicuously.—Basil Hall, ‘Travels in North America,’ i. 125.
