g for its romantic
beauty, I was disappointed in its appearance. It is not so large as I
had supposed; yet it is a clean little place, having many good
buildings, and a very interesting society. Immediately on leaving it we
plunged into a wild and desolate mountainous region, extending thirty
miles--and yet there are many beautiful lakes on the very summit of the
hills, said to be permanent. About ten miles from Wilkesbarre we came to
the _Shades of Death_, a hideous place, calculated to awaken feelings of
the gloomiest kind. We passed Stoddardtsville, composed of a few
desolate looking houses on the terrible height. At the Lehigh, which is
here quite small, there is a mill, though now partly fallen down. How it
is supplied with grain in that dreary region, I am utterly unable to
conjecture. At length over this mountainous country, and its intolerable
log roads, we put up at Pokono for the night, distant eighty miles from
Montrose.

We descended the Pokono on the morning of the 24th, at two o'clock--and
I can truly say I never had a ride which caused me so much uneasiness;
for it was steep as a house-roof, and I could not see the road for the
fog, so gave myself up to the mercy of the driver. We got down safe,
passed the Wind Gap, and arrived at Nazareth, distant twenty-five miles.
Nazareth is a pleasant little place, peopled by a most amiable
community. I left it next morning for Easton, distant seven miles, and
by night was at my own door.

Annexed is a list of places through which my journey lay, with their
distances--which may possibly be useful in directing some who are
desirous of spending three weeks in traveling over the most interesting
portion of the Union.

_Outward._--New York, 90 miles. Albany, 160; Schenectady, 16; Amsterdam,
16; Schoharie Creek, 7; Canawaga, 4; Sparkers, 3; Canajoharie, 3; Fort
Plain, 16; Little Falls, 12; Frankford, 10; Utica, 4; Whitesborough, 3;
Oriskany, 8; Rome, 7; New London, 4: Oneida Creek, 5; Conastota, 4; New
Boston, 4; Chittinings, 8; Manlius, 9; Syracuse, 8; Nine Mile Creek, 6;
Canton, 6; Jordan, 6; Weedsport, 3; Auburn, 10; Cayuga Bridge, 9; Seneca
Falls, 3; Waterloo, 5: Geneva, 6; Canandaigua, 16; E. Bloomfield, 9; W.
do. 5; Lima, 4; E. Avon, 5; Avon P. O., 2; Caledonia, 8; Le Roy, 6;
Batavia, 11; Pembroke, 14: Clarence, 8; Williamsville, 8; Buffalo, 10;
Black Rock, 3; Tonewanto, 9; Niagara Falls, 11; Lewistown, 7.

_Returning._--Rochester, 90; Pittsford, 10; Bushnells,