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 Words can hardly do justice to the unafFected ease and Fourth 



Journey. 



eleejance of the American ladies who visit the falls of _ 



American 



Niagara. The traveller need not rove in imagination ia<iies. 

 through Circassia in search of fine forms, or through 

 England, France, and Spain to meet with polished 

 females. The numbers who are continually arriving from 

 all parts of the Union confirm the justness of this remark. 



I was looking one evening at a dance, being unable to 

 join in it on account of the accident I had received near 

 Buffalo, when a young American entered the ball-room 

 with such a becoming air and grace, that it was impos- 

 sible not to have been struck with her appearance. 



" Her bloom was like the springing flower 

 That sips the silvei* clew, 

 The rose was buckled in her cheek. 

 Just opening to the view." 



I could not help feeling a wish to know where she had 



" Into such beauty spread, and blown so fair." 



Upon inquiry, I found that she was from the city of 

 Albany. The more I looked at the fair Albanese, the 

 more I was convinced that in the United States of 

 America may be foimd grace and beauty and symmetry 

 equal to any thing in the old world. 



I now for good and all (and well I might) gave up the 

 idea of finding bugs, bears, brutes, and buffaloes in this 

 country, and was thoroughly satisfied that I had laboured 



