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falls of Niagara. There is nothing haughty or 

 forbidding in the Americans; and wherever you 

 meet them, they appear to be quite at home. 

 This is exactly what it ought to be, and very 

 much in favour of the foreigner who journeys 

 amongst them. The immense number of highly 

 polished females who go in the stages to visit 

 the different places of amusement, and see the 

 stupendous natural curiosities of this extensive 

 country, incontestably proves that safety and con- 

 venience are ensured to them, and that the most 

 distant attempt at rudeness would, by common 

 consent, be immediately put down. 



By the time I had got to Schenectady, I began 

 strongly to suspect that I had come into the 

 wrong country to look for bugs, bears, brutes, and 

 buffaloes. It is an enchanting journey from Al- 

 bany to Schenectady, and from thence to Lake 

 Erie. The situation of the city of Utica is par- 

 ticularly attractive ; the Mohawk running close 

 by it, the fertile fields and woody mountains, and 

 the falls of Trenton, forcibly press the stranger to 

 stop a day or two here, before he proceeds onward 

 to the lake. 



At some far distant period, when it will not be 

 possible to find the place where many of the cele- 

 brated cities of the East once stood, the world 

 will have to thank the United States of America 

 for bringing their names into the western regions. 

 It is, indeed, a pretty thought of these people to 



