going to see. It is the most
astonishing and majestic spectacle I have ever witnessed. I
have made a sketch of it, from which I intend to make a
water-color drawing, which our dear little sister shall
certainly see at our beloved mother's home.

"To give you an idea of the agreeable manner in which they
travel in this country, I must tell you, dear sister, that
we passed fourteen nights in the woods, devoured by all
kinds of insects, often wet to the bone, without being able
to dry ourselves, and our only food being pork, a little
salt beef, and maize bread. Independently of this adventure,
we were forty or fifty nights in miserable huts, where we
were obliged to lie upon a floor made of rough timber, and
to endure all the taunts and murmuring of the inhabitants,
who often turned us out of doors, often refused us
admission, and whose hospitality was always defective. I
should never recommend a similar journey to any friend of
mine; yet we are far from repenting what we have done, since
we have all three brought back excellent health and more
experience.

"Adieu, beloved and cherished sister--so tenderly loved.
Receive the embraces of three brothers, whose thoughts are
constantly with you."

As the travellers were proceeding from Buffalo to Canandaigua, over a
country so rude that they suffered more than on any other part of
their journey, they met Mr. Alexander Baring, afterwards Lord
Ashburton, whose acquaintance they had made in Philadelphia. Mr.
Baring was on a tour to Niagara, from which the princes were
returning. His patience was quite exhausted by the hardships he was
enduring on the way; and he expressed the doubt whether the sight of
Niagara could repay one for such excessive toil and privation. His
experience must, indeed, have been different from that of the modern
tourist, who glides smoothly along in the palace-cars. Arriving at
Geneva, they took a boat and sailed up Seneca Lake to its head;
whence they crossed over to Tioga Point, on the Susquehanna. The last
twenty-five miles of this trip they accomplished on foot, each one
carrying his baggage. Passing through the country, in almost a direct
line, by the way of Wilkesbarre, they returned to Philadelphia.

Soon after their return the yellow-fever broke out in Philadelphia
with great malignity, in July, 1797. The princes had expended on
thei