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feeling the sensation which one experiences after a stormy voy- 

 age. This was at Saratoga, the great watering-place to which 

 the Americans resort during the fashionable season. The 

 season was now over, and only a few lingering visitors remained. 

 The town is an assemblage of hotels, at which you are "taken 

 in and done for" at 105. 6d. a day. The hotel in which we 

 stayed is the largest. It has beds for about 1000, and the 

 waiters are all black, slow, and not very obliging. The prices 

 of everything are enormous. A guide-book costs 85. 4d., a 

 bottle of sherry 85. 4d. to 105. 6d., Madeira 24s., Bass' beer 2s. 

 Qd., a cab for three miles 85. to 10s. The horses are not un- 

 like their masters. They hold up their heads, shake their little 

 cocktails, and away they fly with the spider- wheel carriage 

 which the fast Yankees drive. They seem in a desperate hurry 

 at the start, and yet I have not found them more enduring than 

 an English horse at the end of the day's journey. 



Lake George may be visited by spending another day, and 

 it will well repay the time, being exceedingly beautiful, more 

 so than Loch Lomond, which it resembles in size. The moun- 

 tains are not so high, but are wooded to their summits. The 

 hotel accommodation is excellent, and good sport may be had 

 by boat-fishing. In driving down from Lake George to Ti- 

 conderoga, you pass through a little village with four conspicu- 

 ous churches. One of them looks neglected; the driver 

 " guesses she was a Baptist, but he reckons she didn't pay, and 

 they stopped running her." 



At Ticonderoga we embark in the steamer up Lake Cham- 

 plain, the day so extremely hot and calm that the most shady 

 and airy place is welcomed. For some hours the fast steamer 

 speeds on at fifteen miles an hour through the smooth water, 

 the scene on the left presenting a pretty foreground of farms 

 along the lake, backed by the lofty wooded mountain range of 

 this part of the State of New York. On the : right the land is 



