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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 



