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consideration. Saratoga pleased me much; and 

 afforded a fair opportunity of forming a pretty 

 correct idea of the gentry of the United States. 



There is a pleasing frankness, and ease and 

 becoming dignity, in the American ladies; and 

 the good humour, and absence of all haughtiness 

 and puppyism in the gentlemen, must, no doubt, 

 impress the traveller with elevated notions of the 

 company who visit this famous spa. 



During my stay here, all was joy, and affability, 

 and mirth. In the mornings the ladies played and 

 sang for us; and the evenings were generally 

 enlivened with the merry dance. Here I bade 

 farewell to the charming family, in whose com- 

 pany I had passed so many happy days, and pro- 

 ceeded to Albany. 



The stage stopped a little while in the town of 

 Troy. The name alone was quite sufficient to 

 recall to the mind scenes long past and gone. 

 Poor king Priam! Napoleon's sorrows, sad and 

 piercing as they were, did not come up to those 

 of this ill-fated monarch. The Greeks first set 

 his town on fire, and then began to bully : — 



"Ineensa Danai dominantur in urbe. " 



One of his sons was slain before his face; **ante 

 ora parentum, concidit." Another was crushed 

 to mummy by boa-constrictors ;''immensis orbibus 

 angues." His city was rased to the ground, 

 "jacet Ilion ingens." And Pyrrhus ran him 

 through with his sword, "capulo tenus abdidit 

 ensem." This last may be considered as a for- 

 tunate stroke for the poor old king. Had his life 

 been spared at this juncture he could not have 



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