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this remark is an index of the book he designs to pub- 

 lish about us, I would not give a straw for it. How 

 supremely foolish for a man to hurry through the 

 country by steam, taking all the lowland in his route, 

 and then pretend to write about our scenery. These 

 three months' tourists are not the most reliable in the 

 world. To add to the Professor's wisdom, he took the 

 night boat up the lake. Very likely he went down 

 the Hudson by night also. Suppose he had gone up 

 by daylight, and across the country from Burlington 

 to Boston, and then through Massachusetts and Con- 

 necticut to Albany, and down the Hudson on a pleas- 

 ant day — every hour would have been crowded with 

 rich and varied scenery. 



A man who should visit Switzerland and never go 

 into the Oberland or Tyrol, and then say there was no 

 scenery in the country that could be called sublime, 

 would be deemed insane — but a foreign traveler no 

 more thinks of visiting the wild and almost untrodden 

 portions of our land, than he does of committing sui- 

 cide. He expects to see everything worth seeing, 

 without leaving the lines of railroads, or going beyond 

 tlic, precincts of good hotels. As well might a man 

 give an opinion of the scenery of the Highlands after 



