204 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK. 



Jortg-BU'tl) anb Jortg-sermtl) JDaga. 



Eastern Hotel, 



Dunkirk, New York, 



June 25 & 26. 



The road between Angola and Dunkirk led me 

 through one of the most picturesque and productive 

 counties of the State, which at this time promised well 

 for the haymakers who were busy in their ripened 

 fields. Hitherto the successive and varied scenes 

 along my route had in turn won my admiration, from 

 the pleasant ride across Massachusetts and over the 

 Berkshires to the Mohawk Valley and Western New 

 York, but these grain fields in their golden harvest- 

 time and the glimpses of the lake which the tortuous 

 course of the road now and then afforded, were cer- 

 tainly as lovely as anything I had seen thus far. 

 I had noticed that the haying season was well 

 advanced when I was passing through Central New 

 York, but owing to the retarding influence which a 

 large body of water always exerts over vegetation, it 

 had been delayed here. Fourteen miles through this 

 pretty section of Erie and Chautauqua counties 

 brought me to Dunkirk, where I lectured at Columbus 

 Hall in the evening, and was introduced to my 

 audience by Rev. J. A. Kummer. The following 

 day being Sunday, I had another opportunity of 

 meeting this gentleman, as he kindly accompanied me 

 in the morning to the Methodist Church, of which he 

 was pastor. During the services, in which I found 

 myself very mucli interested, there was an opportune 

 moment to study a character which I found to be a 

 thoroughly original one. Mr. Kummer was very 



