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else. Mine host himself is seldom visible, and 

 the waiters attend to your orders so tardily 

 and with so much of the appearance of indif- 

 ference, that you are strongly tempted to ac- 

 celerate their movements by a certain applica- 

 tion of your foot. However, by putting a re- 

 straint on my temper, which I confess I at 

 first managed with some difficulty, I found that 

 I ultimately got what I wanted. 



Next day, the 25th, I proceeded on my jour- 

 ney to Lockport, the country gradually lessen- 

 ing in attractiveness, the quantity of cleared 

 land being comparatively small, and the pro- 

 portion of forest consequently greater than in 

 the country I had just left. 



From Lockport I passed by the railway to 

 the Falls of Niagara, the distance being twenty- 

 four miles ; and on the 26th, I crossed over to 

 the Canadian side to behold these amazing 

 works of nature, of the grandeur of which de- 

 scriptions are familiar to every reader. 



I have only to observe that on viewing 

 them, I sensibly experienced the disappoint- 

 ment usually attending the actual sight of any 



