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and Nathaniel Gorham ? Perhaps so. Were you in 

 this country during the last war f My patience 

 could stand it no longer, and I took up my hat, 

 and excused myself by saying, that I had particu- 

 lar business, and must take a walk. 



The inns are generally comfortable, clean, con- 

 venient, and well supplied with provisions ; but 

 still there is room for improvement, and many 

 little accommodations are overlooked. I have 

 seen bells no where but at the great inn at 

 Geneva, and scrapers no where but at the sign of 

 the whale in Chitteningo. There are few carpets, 

 and instead of blinds on the inside or outside of 

 the windows, to exclude heat and excess of light, 

 the windows are generally curtained with a coarse 

 kind of paper, which is as difficult to move as a 

 fifty-six, and which is constantly rattling about 

 your ears like hail : and by the by, in the best 

 private houses, you frequently see papered rooms, 

 which serve as an asylum for bugs and other 

 vermin, instead of painted or stained apartments, 

 which never admit them : and when you go to 

 rest you plunge into the gulf profound of a Scan- 

 dinavian feather bed, from which it is difficult to 

 retreat, and in which it is still more difficult to 

 inove^ 



The prices of travelling in stages, and of living 

 in some hotels are too high, when compared m\h 



