Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-09-06
VOL. XIII.-No. 637

at Saratoga"
OF Canandaigua and Genesee, and Of
Messrs. GREG DUNCAN, g. WADswoRTH,
he says:-
"From Auburn we took saddle.horses
and rode TO Geneva. beautifully situated
town on Seneca lake thence through a
country bearing marks of improved cult.
vatlon and prosperous condition, to Can.
andaigua, passing over the fine lake Cayu.
ga on wooden bridge, the length Of which
! conceive to be nearly a mile aud q half
built on piles. Nothing can be more neat
and comfortable looking than the village
OF e. n ,nd'gua it is composed OF one long
street, which lie, indeed, series OF villas,
each house being shaded by walnut, hick.
Dry. and other forest trees.
Having letters Of introduction to Mr..
g., an eminent Scottish agricullurist. and
my companion beng acquainted with Mr..
D., another Scottish gentleman settled
here. we soon found ourselves in the en-
joyment of every comfort that the most
kind and considerable hospitality could offer.
Mr.. G.. was one of the earliest settlers in
bis part Of the country, and BY unweared
perseverance, consumtnate ability, end un-
suIed integrity, has raised himself in this
district to an eminence, both in fortune
and character, that may be prounced envi
able, Indeed it was with mingled feelings
of establishment, pleasure, and national
pride. that saw this man doing the honors
Of his table in house that might vie in
comfort and luxury with any Of the villas
near London, and looking from its roof
over vast PLAIN Of corn, :ru,t trees, and
gardens, On which, when he first came TO
The country. the lmpervous forest grew.
and the red man and the deer wandered.
1--WE spent two or three days here most
agreeably. and derived much useful infor.
nation from conversation with Mr.. G. re-
speeding the method pursued in surveying,
clearing selling. and otherwise managing
the tracts of land disposed of in this coun.
try.
From Canandaigua, which left with
much reluctance. we passed through a
thriving and well cultivated country 10
Genesee. where had the pleasure Of be-
ing Introduced to Mr. w., The owner of a
magnificent estate 10 the Genesee fats
Fortune seemed not ye, weared of being
boUntiful. and allowed US TO see this NEST
beautiful valley, with The advantage of
residing in one of the most hospiIable and
agreeable houses that ever entered. Mr..
WIS son accompanied US through his ex-
tensve farms. which are formed equally
TO delight the eye Of Poussn or Sir J.
Sinclair. The broad meadows of an aIu-
vial soil, covered with the richest grasses,
as watered by the winding Genesee, are
studded with trees, beautifully and negll-
gently grouped, among which are scatler-
ed large herds of cattle of various breeds
and kinds, both English and American -
the meadows are here and there ntersper.
sed with fields of Indian corn and wheat,
while the hills that rise on each side are
crowned with timber, excepting spots where
the encroaching hand of Improvement has
begun to grdle some of the Ia sons Of the
forest, whose sca,hed tops and black bare
drms. betokenng their approaching fall,
give picturesque variety to The scene.
Yet this scene, extraordinary and IN
teresling as it was, possessed less interest
10 a contem plative and musing mind than
the venerable and excellen, gentleman who
had almost created IT. for it was now
forty. four years since Mr.. w. came as the
Fl at settler to this spot with an axe on hls
I shout Ter, aud slept the frs, night under q
tree. After this he lodged in a log house;
subsequently, IN cottage; and he is now
the universally esteemed and respected
possessor Of Jemesne. which many OF the
proudest nobility of Europe might look
upon with envy, where he exercises the
rites of hospitality in the midst Of his ami.
able family with a sincerity and kindness
that shall not easily forget"
After visiting the Falls. Mr.. Murray
descended the ST. Lawrence to Osdens.
burgh; and thence, as the cholera was
raging at Montreal and Quebec, proceeded
by land to Burlington, Vt. where he was
charmed with the town, and pays a hand
some compliment to our friend THOMAS,
who then kept an excellent Hotel there.
A: Montpelier he bought French pony
ITO share the toll with the horse purchased
at Auburn and here, in the handsomest
manner, he vindca'es our countrymen
from the imputa'on SO unscrupulously cast
upon us by most foreign tourists. Of being
cheats and sharpers
| Here cannot he Up making few re-
marks upon a subject on which think The
general opinion in Britain is efroneous.-
We are taught that the Yankee is iuvar.
ably suspicious aud avaricluus man IN
his money Transactions, and incapable OF
those feelings and acts of hberalily for
which the British character is distinguish.
ed. | shall mention two instances that
occurred to me 10 the space OF Tour days,
winch showed very different character
from that OF which the New Eng anders
are accused. The change in the route
which the prevalence OF the cholera at
Montreal induced me to adopt, had proven.
ted me from drawing any of The money