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she may, in a measure, balance the power in the 

 opposite corner of the State, where the " City of 

 Brotherly Love'' reigns supreme. Having seen so 

 much of the place as time would allow, and heard its 

 story from those who knew it best, I ended the day 

 by lecturing at the Academy of Music, Hon. C. B. 

 Curtis introducing. 



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Farm House, 



SwANViLLE, Pennsylvania, 



June Thirtieth. 



Passed a very busy morning at Erie attending to 

 business correspondence with advance agents, making 

 notes, and with the assistance of Mr. Farrington 

 brought my scrap-book up to date. I called also upon 

 a few old acquaintances whom I had known in the East, 

 and whose faces were a welcome surprise at this stage 

 of my journey. The editor of the Erie Dispatch 

 called after dinner and spent an hour with me in a 

 general discussion of the incidents of my trip since 

 leaving Boston, which had been, however, more pleas- 

 ant than exciting. In this way the afternoon slipped 

 by, and it was not until five o'clock that I found 

 myself ready to leave Colonel Ellsworth's hospitable 

 roof. Had I not been fullv determined to make 

 some headway before night, the cordial request of 

 my host that I stay longer with him might have 

 dissuaded me at the last from starting so late, but I 

 resisted the inclination, and having bade good-bye to 

 my newly-made friends put spurs to Paul, who soon 

 carried me far beyond the city limits on the road to 



