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two large inns on the Canada side; but, after you FOURTH 
have satisfied your curiosity in viewing the falls, and 
in seeing the rainbow in the foam far below where 
you are standing, do not, I pray you, tarry long at 
either of them. Cross over to the American side, 
and there you will find a spacious inn, which has 
nearly all the attractions; there you meet with great 
attention, and every accommodation. 
The day is passed in looking at the falls, and in 
sauntering up and down the wooded and rocky en¬ 
virons of the Niagara; and the evening is often en¬ 
livened by the merry dance. 
Words can hardly do justice to the unaffected American 
ease and elegance of the American ladies who visit 
the falls of Niagara. The traveller need not rove 
in imagination through Circassia in search of fine 
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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 en¬ 
tered the ball-room with such a becoming air and 
grace, that it was impossible not to have been struck 
with her appearance. 
“ Her bloom was like the springing flower 
That sips the silver dew, 
The rose was budded 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.” 
