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from thence to Saratoga, very good. He must be sorely Fourth 



Journey, 



afflicted with spleen and jamidice, who, on his arrival at — 



Saratoga, remarks, there is nothing here worth coming 

 to see. It is a gay and fashionable place ; has four 

 imcommonly fine hotels ; its waters, for medicinal virtues, 

 are surpassed by none in the known world ; and it is 

 resorted to, throughout the Avhole of the summer, by 

 foreigners and natives of the first consideration. Saratoga 

 pleased me much ; and afibrded a fair opportunity of 

 forming a pretty correct idea of the gentry of the United 

 States. 



There is a pleasing frankness, and ease and becoming 

 dignity in the American ladies ; and the good humour, 

 and absence of all haughtiness and puppyism in the 

 gentlemen, must, no doubt, impress the traveller 

 Avith elevated notions of the company who visit this 

 famous spa. 



During my stay here, all was joy, and affability, and 

 mirth. In the mornings the ladies played and sang for 

 us ; and the evenings were generally enlivened with the 

 merry dance. Here I bade farewell to the charming 

 family, in whose company I had passed so many happy 

 days, and proceeded to Albany. 



The stage stopped a little while in the town of Troy. Troy. 

 The name alone was quite sufficient to recall to tlie mind 

 scenes long past and gone. Poor king Priam ! Napo- 

 leon's sorrows, sad and piercing as they were, did not 



