74 JOURNEY TO GENEVA. 



CHAPTER X. 



Journey to Geneva Schenectady Question Asking Stage Dri 

 ver Valley of Mohawk Agricultural Duties Utica Atten 

 tion to Females Marcellus Skeneatiles Cayuga Bridge 

 Dinner Party Dumfries-shire Farmer Sheep Husbandry 

 Condition of Animals Farms Geneva. 



WE left Albany in the morning, and breakfasted at Sehen- 

 ectady, which contains about 5000 inhabitants, and from its 

 situation on the Mohawk, the union of the Erie Canal, and 

 railway from Albany and Saratoga, it is likely to rise in import 

 ance. From Schenectady we proceeded, by stage, along the 

 valley of the Mohawk, on the north side of the river, to Utica, 

 where \ve arrived about two in the morning, the state of the 

 roads being bad. 



The temperature was unpleasantly warm throughout the 

 day, and the stage crowded with passengers, who were gene 

 rally agreeable companions. One of them, a gentleman in 

 dress and manners, while conversing with my friend, enquired 

 what country he came from, and immediately apologized for 

 so doing. It is but justice to the people of America to 

 say, this was the first question put to either my friend or 

 me evincing curiosity, and considering conversation had been 

 previously continued for hours, it was not altogether inex 

 cusable. Travellers from a foreign land generally ply with 

 questions the natives they come in contact with, and thereby 

 lay themselves open to questions in return. 



The driver who carried us to Utica behaved improperly 

 towards my friend, regarding his luggage. He was a saucy 

 fellow, and spouted what he perhaps considered wit, and 

 others insolence, with every person who spoke to him. In 

 fact, he was the only insolent driver I met with in the 

 United States, this class of men being generally civil and 

 accommodating to their passengers. He treated all travellers 

 alike, and when told by an American he had taken four hours 



