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"John " to meet me a year from a certain day, at 

 5 p. M., on the Lower Saranac, I have rolled up to 

 ''Martin's " and jumped from the coach as the 

 faithful fellow, equally " on time," was in the act 

 of pulling his narrow boat up the beach. It is not 

 only easy and quick, but the cheapest route also, 

 and takes you through some of the sublimest 

 scenery in the world. At Keeseville, if you wish, 

 you can turn off to the left toward North Elba, 

 and visit that historic grave in which the martyr of 

 the nineteenth century sleeps, with a boulder of 

 native granite for his tombstone, and the cloud- 

 covered peaks of Whiteface and Marcy to the 

 north and south, towering five thousand feet above 

 his head. By all means stop here a day. It will 

 better you to stand a few moments over John 

 Brown's grave, to enter the house he built, to see 

 the fields he and his heroic boys cleared, the 

 fences they erected and others standing incomplete 

 as they left them when they started for Harper's 

 Ferry. What memories, if you are an American, 

 will throng into your head as you stand beside 

 that mound and traverse those fields ! You will 

 continue your journey a better man or purer 

 woman from even so brief a visit to the grave of 

 one whose name is and will ever be a synonyme of 

 liberty and justice throughout the world. If you 

 are mere tourists, and intend going no farther west- 

 ward than North Elba, stop at Westport, above 



