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 wherever you meet them, they appear to be quite at Foukth 



Journey, 



home. This is exactly what it ought to be, and very 



much in favour of the foreigner who journies amongst 

 them. The immense number of highly polished females 

 who go in the stages to visit the different places of amuse- 

 ment, and see the stupendous natural curiosities of this 

 extensive country, incontestably proves that safety and 

 convenience are ensured to them, and that the most 

 distant attempt at rudeness would, by common consent, 

 be immediately put down. 



By the time I had got to Schenectady, I began strongly 

 to suspect that I had come into the Avrong country to 

 look for bugs, bears, brutes, and buffaloes. It is an 

 enchanting journey from Albany to Schenectady, and 

 from thence to Lake Erie. The situation of the city of 

 Utica is particularly attractive ; the Mohawk running 

 close by it, the fertile fields and woody mountains, and 

 the falls of Trenton, forcibly press the stranger to stop a 

 day or two here, before he proceeds onward to the lake. 



At some far distant period, when it will not be possible 

 to find the place where many of the celebrated cities of 

 the East once stood, the world will have to thank the 

 United States of America for bringing their names into 

 the western regions. It is, indeed, a pretty thought of 

 these people to give to their rising towns the names of 

 places so famous and conspicuous in former times. 



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