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pleased me much; and afforded a fair opportunity of fourth 
forming a pretty correct idea of the gentry of the- 
United States. 
There is a pleasing frankness, and ease and be¬ 
coming 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 with 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 enli¬ 
vened with the merry dance. Here I hade 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 the mind scenes long past and gone. Poor king 
Priam ! Napoleon’s sorrows, sad and piercing as 
they were, did not come up to those of this ill-fated 
monarch. The Greeks first set his town on fire, 
and then began to bully:— 
“ Incensa Danai dominantur in urbe.” 
One of his sons was slain before his face; u ante ora 
parentum, concidit.” Another was crushed to mum¬ 
my by boa constrictors; “ immensis orbibus an- 
gues.” His city was rased to the ground, “jacet 
Ilion ingens.” And Pyrrhus ran him through with 
his sword, “ capulo tenus abdidit ensem.” This last 
may be considered as a fortunate stroke for the poor 
old king. Had his life been spared at this juncture 
