30 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 



and formed a class of about eighty members, 

 whose hearty appreciation of the ideas embodied 

 in my system of training afforded me great 

 pleasure. 



Leaving that place, I next proceeded to the 

 beautiful villag^e of Penn Yan, where also I built 

 an academy and met with brilliant success, my 

 class numbering over ninety members. 



Such gratifying success, and at so early a 

 period, was very encouraging to me. Both my- 

 self and my system were new to the public, and, 

 coming before them almost unheralded and 

 without the prestige of great names to give it 

 support, its progress and the general approval 

 it met, could be attributed only to its own merits, 

 which were everywhere conceded. 



The next point visited by me was the beauti- 

 ful and highly picturesque village called Watkins, 

 so well and widely known to pleasure-seekers as 

 an attractive summer resort ; its famous " Glen " 

 having an almost national reputation for romantic 

 beauty. Here I formed an interesting class of 

 about sixty persons, many of whom gave unmis- 



