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 fall 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 ricft- 



