e-coach .... Salt Lake .... Salt spring at Salina ....
Arrival at Auburn .... Cayuga Lake .... Seneca Falls .... Geneva ....
Canandaigua .... Arrival at Rochester .... Genessee river .... Arrival
at Lockport .... Journey in a dearborn .... Grand Island.
Chapter XXVI.-- Buffalo .... Arrival at Manchester .... Eagle Tavern
.... Falls of Niagara .... Goat Island .... Camera obscura .... Cross
from the Canada to the American side .... Forsyth's Hotel.
Chapter XXVII.-- Journey from Niagara to Lake Champlain .... Arrival
at Caldwell .... Hudson or Glenn's Falls .... Arrival at Saratoga ....
Congress Hall .... Introduction to the Governor .... American character
.... Journey from Saratoga to Albany .... Passage up the river to
Catskill .... Pine Orchard .... Passage from Catskill to Hudson ....
Passage from Hudson to West Point .... Military School at West Point
.... Fort Putnam .... Passage from West Point to New-York .... Alida's
return to her native residence.
Chapter XXVIII.-- Sickness and death of Alida's father .... Reflections.
Chapter XXIX.-- Albert, the only surviving brother of Alida, takes
possession of the paternal estate.
Chapter XXX.-- Effect of misrepresentation.
Chapter XXXI.-- Return of a friend .... The joyful meeting.
Chapter XXXII.-- Anticipated happiness.
Chapter XXXIII.-- A candid confession.
Chapter XXXIV.-- Restoration of former fortune.
POEMS.
Hymn .... Christian Institute .... Friendship .... To Maria .... The Sun
.... The Voice of Time .... In Memory of Mrs. William Richards ....
Invocation to Prayer.
Subscribers' Names.
ALIDA.
CHAPTER I.
"Rien n'est si contagieux qui l'exemple; et nous ne faisons jamais
de grand biens: ni de grand maux, qui n'en produisent de semblables."
The ancestry of Alida was of ancient date in English heraldry, some of
whom emigrated to America a short time before the revolution, and
settled in the southern provinces, while her father fixed his abode in
the state of New-York.
In the calm retirement of the country, at a considerable distance from
the bustle of the town, was situated his beautiful residence, which had
every advantage in point of prospect that luxuriant nature could give
when it is most lavish of its bounties.
The mind of its owner took particular delight in rural pleasures and
amusements; in dissipating a part of his time in the innocent scenes of
rustic life, and in attending to the cultivation of
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