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idea of visiting Boston, he took pas- 
sage on a canal boat for Rochester. 
His fellow-passengers on the boat were 
doubtful whether he was a government 
officer, commissioner, or spy. At that 
time Rochester had only five thousand 
inhabitants. After a couple of days he 
went on to Buffalo and, he says, wrote 
under his name at the hotel this sen- 
tence : ‘‘ Who, like Wilson, will ramble, 
but never, like that great man, die 
under the lash of a bookseller.”’ 
He visited Niagara, and gives a good 
account of the impressions which the 
cataract made upon him. He did not 
cross the bridge to Goat Island on ac- 
count of the low state of his funds. In 
Buffalo he obtained a good dinner of 
bread and milk for twelve cents, and 
went to bed cheering himself with 
thoughts of other great men who had 
encountered greater hardships and had 
finally achieved fame. 
He soon left Buffalo, taking a deck 
