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The day is passed in looking at the falls, and FOURTH 

 in sauntering up and down the wooded and rocky JOUKNt!T ' 

 environs of the Niagara; and the evening is often 

 enlivened by the merry dance. 



Words can hardly do justice to the unaffected American 

 ease and elegance of the American ladies who visit Ul 

 the falls of Niagara. The traveller need not rove 

 in imagination through Circassia in search of fine 

 forms, or through England, France, and Spain, 

 to meet with polished females. The numbers who 

 are continually arriving from all parts of the 

 Union confirm the justness of this remark. 



I was looking one evening at a dance, being 

 unable to join in it on account of the accident I 

 had received near Buffalo, when a young Ameri- 

 can entered the ball-room with such a becoming 

 air and grace, that it was impossible not to have 

 been struck with her appearance. 



" Her bloom was like the springing flower 



That sips the silver dew, 

 The rose was budded in her cheek, 

 Just opening to the view." 



I could not help feeling a wish to know where 



she had 



" Into such beauty spread, and blown so fair." 



Upon inquiry, I found that she was from the city 

 of Albany. The more I looked at the fair Alba- 

 nese, the more I was convinced, that in the 



