The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-01-26
MISCELLANY.

tracts from Wanderings" in America;
published in London, 1925. The author
Charles Woterton, Esq. of Walton Hall,
Yorkshire, England, travelled extensively
in South and North America, in quest OF
natural history. lie visited Niagara in
July, 1921, and pays the following compli-
mentary tribute to an Albany fair one.
"Words can hardly do Justice to the un-
affected ease and elegance Of the Ameri-
can ladies, who visit the falls of Niagara.
The traveller need not roam in imagina-
ton through Circassia, in search Of fine
forms; or through England, France or
Spain, to meet with polished females. The
numbers, who are continually arriving
from all parts of the Union, confirm the
juStness Of this remark.
81 was looking one evening at q dance,
being unable to Join in it, on account Of the
accident had received near Buffalo, when
young American entered the ball room,
with such n becoming air'and grace, that
1t was impossible not to have been struck
with her appearance.
Her bloom was like n sprnring flower
That sips the silver dew,
The rose was budded OH her check,
Just opening to the viewr
could not help feeling wish 10 know
where she had
lnto such beauty spread, and blown so fair
Upon inquiry, found that she was from
the city of Albany. The more looked at
the fair Albanian, the more was convinced
al, -, Al e
be found grace, and beauty, and symmetry
equal to any thing in the old world.
81 now, for good and all, and well
might, gave up the idea Of finding bugs,
bears, brutes, and buiialoes in the country,
and was thoroughly satisfied that had la
bored under great mistake in suspecting
that ! should ever meet with them. wish
ed TO Join in the dance where the fair Al
banian was
'To brisk notes in cadence beating
but the state Of my unlucky foot rendered
1T impossible.
Nothing can surpass the appearance of
the American ladies, when they take their
morning walk, from twelve to three o'clock.
The stranger will at once see that they
have rejected the extravagant superfuities
which appear in the London and Partisan
fashions; and have only retained so much
of those costumes, as are becoming to the
female form. This joined to their own
Just notions Of dress, is Nhat renders the
New-York ladies so elegant in their attire.
The way they wear the Leghorn hat de-
serves a remark ortwo. With us the for
nal hand of the milliner binds down the
brim to one fixed shape, and that none of
the handsomest. The wearer is obliged
70 turn her head full 90 degrees, before she
can see the person who is standing by her
side. But in New-York the ladies have
the brim Of the hat not iettercd with wire,
tape or ribband, but quite free and undu-
lating; and by applying the hand 70 it, they
can conceal or expose as much OF the face
as circumstances require. The hiding and
exposing the face, by the by, is certainly
dangerous movement; and often fatal TO
the passing swain. am convinced in my
own mind, that many determined and un-
suspocting bachelor, has been shot down
by this sudden manuuvre, before he was n
ware that he was within the reach of the
battery"
"Now that the packets are so safe, and
make such quick passages TO the United
States, it would be as well il some of our
head mil liners would 60 on b oard Of them
in lieu Of getting into the Diligence for
Paris. They would bring more taste and
less caricaturc."