68 EARLY UNDERTAKINGS. [1838, 
ing through Geneva, arrived at Canandaigua in time 
for dinner. We reached Avon, on the Genesee 
River, by sunset. Here is a famous sulphur spring ; 
and people crowd the dirty hotels and boarding-houses 
to drink nasty water. We reached the next consider- 
able village, LeRoy, early in the evening ; but our next 
stage, which brought us to this place, only ten miles, 
was two and a half hours; so it was about midnight 
when I arrived here, in a very pitiable plight, so 
thoroughly exhausted I was obliged to leave the coach 
and betake myself to rest. I was very unwilling to do 
this so long as I was able to ride, as, had I continued 
with the coach, I should have reached Buffalo early in 
the morning and in time for the steamboat, in which 
ease I could expect to reach Detroit ngs after- 
noon, making only four days from New 
I find myself much better this eae though 
weak, and so unstable about the epigastrium that I 
searcely dare take any food. I have been debating 
with myself whether to go on directly to Buffalo to- 
day, and take the steamboat of to-morrow morning 
for Cleveland, or some other port in Ohio that I may 
be able to reach by Saturday evening ; or to go from 
this place directly to Niagara Falls, which I could 
reach before evening, and remain there until Monday 
morning. I have pretty nearly decided upon taking 
the former course, as I shall save some time thereby. 
But I dread a tedious ride in a stagecoach. In either 
case I hope to have an opportunity of writing again 
to-morrow evening. 
I met Professor Bailey,! of West Point, on board 
1 Jacob Whitman Bailey, 1808-1857; professor in the Military 
Academy at West Point. One of the earliest students of American 
Algz, and distinguished also for his microscopic researches in botany. 
