The Best View Of The Larger
Fall Itself Is That Seen From The Wood.
And here again I would
point out that any male visitor should walk the channel of the
river up and down.
The descent is too slippery and difficult for
bipeds laden with petticoats. We found a small hotel open at
Trenton, at which we got a comfortable dinner, and then in the
evening were driven back to Utica.
Albany is the capital of the State of New York, and our road from
Trenton to West Point lay through that town; but these political
State capitals have no interest in themselves. The State
legislature was not sitting; and we went on, merely remarking that
the manner in which the railway cars are made to run backward and
forward through the crowded streets of the town must cause a
frequent loss of human life. One is led to suppose that children
in Albany can hardly have a chance of coming to maturity. Such
accidents do not become the subject of long-continued and strong
comment in the States as they do with us; but nevertheless I should
have thought that such a state of things as we saw there would have
given rise to some remark on the part of the philanthropists. I
cannot myself say that I saw anybody killed, and therefore should
not be justified in making more than this passing remark on the
subject.
When first the Americans of the Northern States began to talk much
of their country, their claims as to fine scenery were confined to
Niagara and the Hudson River.
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