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WANDERINGS IN 



Fourth way. I bade him farewell, and again farewell, and 



JoURXEY. 



hoped that fortune might bring us together again once 



more. Possibly she may yet do so ; and should it be in 

 England I will take him to my house, as an old friend 

 and acquaintance, and oifer him my choicest cheer. 



The great It is at Albany that the great canal opens into the 



canal. 



Hudson, and joins the waters of this river to those of 

 Lake Erie. The Hudson, at the city of Albany, is 

 distant from Lake Erie about three hundred and sixty 

 miles. The level of the lake is five hundred and sixty- 

 four feet higher than the Hudson, and there are eighty- 

 one locks on the canal. It is to the genius and perse- 

 verance of De Witt Clinton, that the United States owe 

 the almost incalculable advantages of this inland naviga- 

 tion. " Exegit monumentum sere perennius." You may 

 either go along it all the way to Buffalo, on Lake Erie, 

 or by the stage ; or sometimes on one and then in the 

 Scenery. Other, just as you think fit. Grand, indeed, is the 

 scenery by either route, and capital the accommodations. 

 Cold and phlegmatic must he be who is not warmed into 

 admiration by the surrounding scenery, and charmed with 

 the aff'ability of the travellers he meets on the way. 



This is now the season of roving, and joy and merri- 

 ment for the gentry of this happy country. Thousands 

 are on the move from different parts of the Union for the 

 springs and lakes, and the falls of Niagara. There is 

 nothing haughty or forbidding in the Americans; and 



