32 GENEVA. 



and accordingly I mounted the bench, beside 

 the driver whom I found of an injocose and 

 taciturn class, thankful enough for information 

 as to foreign modes but not themselves of a 

 communicative turn. 



I still however underwent a course of ex- 

 cruciating jolting, and was exposed to conti- 

 nual danger of dislocation of my joints, or of 

 being pitched off ; but I enjoyed the free air of 

 Heaven, and what to me was for the time of 

 more importance, a full view of the country 

 than which nothing can be imagined more 

 beautiful. Composed of alternating hill and 

 dale it strongly reminded me of the most ad- 

 mired parts of Northamptonshire ; but al- 

 though all cleared and enclosed, the land evi- 

 dently is mismanaged and much of its intrinsic 

 value thereby lost. 



We changed horses at Geneva, twenty- three 

 miles from Auburn and delightfully situate on 

 the lake of that name, forty miles in length and 

 three in breadth. It is surrounded by a country 

 possessing that indescribable beauty and rich- 



