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ference, however, because more airy, to the 
cabin or after part, fitted up with benches, and 
covered with a wooden awning, under which 
a man could just sit upright, provided he was 
not very tall. The benches, which went 
lengthwise, accommodated two of us; and the 
third was obliged to put up with the cabin 
floor ; but a blanket and a bare board, out of 
the way of musquitoes, were luxuries after 
our accommodations at Skenesborough; our 
ears w ere not assailed by the noise even of a 
single one the whole night, and we enjoyed 
sounder repose than we had done for many 
nights preceding. 
The wind remained nearly in the same 
point the next morning, but the lake being 
wider, we were enabled to proceed faster. We 
stopped at one house to breakfast, and at an¬ 
other to dine. At neither of these, although 
they bore the name of taverns, were we able 
to procure much more than at the houses 
where we had stopped the preceding evening. 
At the first we got a little milk, and about 
tw r o pounds of bread, absolutely the whole of 
what was in the house; and at the second, a 
few eggs and some cold salted fat pork; but 
not a morsel of bread was to be had. The 
wretched appearance also of this last habita¬ 
tion was very striking; it consisted of a wooden 
frame, merely with a few boards nailed against 
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