the passage along the river can be continued for another mile; but it is rough, and the climbing in some places rather difficult for ladies.  Every man, however, who has the use of his legs should do it; for the succession of rapids, and the twistings of the channels, and the forms of the rocks are as wild and beautiful as the imagination can desire.  The banks of the river are closely wooded on each side; and though this circumstance does not at first seem to add much to the beauty, seeing that the ravine is so deep that the absence of wood above would hardly be noticed, still there are broken clefts ever and anon through which the colors of the foliage show themselves, and straggling boughs and rough roots break through the rocks here and there, and add to the wildness and charm of the whole.

The walk back from the summer-house through the wood is very lovely; but it would be a disappointing walk to visitors who had been prevented by a flood in the river from coming up the channel, for it indicates plainly how requisite it is that the river should be seen from below and not from above.  The best view of the larger fall itself is that seen from the wood.  And here again I would point out that any male visitor should walk the channel of the river up and down.  The descent is too slippery and difficult for bipeds laden with petticoats.  We found a small hotel open at Trenton, at which we got a comfortable dinner, and then in the evening were driven back to Utica.

Albany is the capital of the State of New York, and our road from Trenton to West Point lay through that town; but these political State capitals have no interest in themselves.  The State legislature was not sitting; and we went on, merely remarking that the manner in which the railway cars are made to run backward and forward through the crowded streets of the town must cause a frequent loss of human life.  One is led to suppose that children in Albany can hardly have a chance of coming to maturity.  Such accidents do not become the subject of long-continued and strong comment in the States as they do with us; but nevertheless I should have thought that such a state of things as we saw there would have given rise to some remark on the part of the philanthropists.  I cannot myself say that I saw anybody killed, and therefore should not be justified in making more than this passing remark on the subject.

When first the Americans of the Northern States began to talk much of their country, their claims as to fine scenery were confined to Niagara and the Hudson River.  Of Niagara I have spoken; and all the world has acknowledged that no claim made on that head can be regarded as exaggerated.  As to the Hudson I am not prepared to say so much generally, though there is one spot upon it which cannot be beaten for sweetness.  I have been up and down the Hudson by water, and confess that the entire river is pretty.  But there is much of it that is not pre-eminently