and here, opposite the inn, a grand ball was going on.

The landlord, I regret to tell it, again played us false, first assuring us that the same coach should go on, and then, after detaining us an hour, forcing us into another; and away we went at a snail's pace to Mount Lebanon. Such bone-setting I never experienced! for from the moment - we left Pittsfield we began to ascend amidst rocks, ruts, and darkness. At length we got, as it were, up to the very clouds, when our driver dismounted and locked a wheel, and we rapidly descended a kind of corkscrew hill, called Handcock mountain, then we made another short ascent, and were at length landed at Lebanon, and ushered into Hull's magnificent establishment.

We found a long, large, deserted hall; but tea, coffee, cold meat, and wild honey, were speedily furnished us; with which, and a sherry cobler and cigars, we comforted

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ourselves, and I retired to my chamber to pen this lucubration; for which, considering that it was past midnight before I commenced it, you ought to be profoundly grateful.

Adieu !

LETTER XI.

Bathing-Erudite Breakfast-Negro Opinions of fair Ladies Expediency of a Trip to Lebanon Shakers-Details of their Domestic Arrangements -History of old Annie the Dairy-maid-Controversy between John Mantle and Captain O-The Captain retires from the Conflict - John Mantle's Exposition of his Tenets, and History of Himself Hotels at Lebanon-Misery of a Groundfloor Apartment-Sensitiveness of a Black waiting Damsel The use of Cigars interdicted by a Virginian Planter.

MY DEAR S

The New Lebanon, Sept. 1, 1840.

Notwithstanding the fatigues of the previous day, I rose with the lark, "the herald of the morn," or rather with the sun, whose beams do not penetrate quite so early into this "happy valley in the mountains ;" for, on dressing and going abroad, I found

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myself in an amphitheatre formed by beautiful hills. Dr. Johnson must have visited this place before he wrote his "Rasselas."

I got into a delicious swimming-bath, the constant temperature of which is 72°, as the spring that runs through it never varies throughout the year. Then came a breakfast that would have done honour to merry Scotland: spatch-cock, kippered salmon, omelets, trout, piccerelle (a most delicate fish), fried potatoes, yellow mush, made from Indian corn, and which you eat with cream, ham, hung-beef, fresh butter, eggs, and honey-comb! After which slight repast, you may indulge in fiddling, bowling, billiarding, or bounding over the mountains like refreshed roebucks.

At dinner, also, you here fare sumptuously; for a more splendid one I never saw put upon a table, and all we lacked was fair partakers of it-for we had come just “a day after the fair." Yesterday was the last

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of the season, and this morning twenty families had taken flight, leaving very few behind them. It was quite ridiculous to listen to the flowery descriptions of the numerous belles who had graced this place by their presence during the last month, as given by the blackies in attendance; for in this fine, free, enlightened country it is all nigger work.

"Ah, massa! Miss R. from New York, she d—d fine gal, but she too saucy!” “Oh, yes, massa! Miss L. from Virginy; she very rich, and much too handsome! "

The hall in which we dined is about 70 feet long. The saloon 40 feet long by 20; and here dancing commences each evening, after tea and coffee, at six o'clock. It was this night splendidly illuminated, and the band, a black one, was by no means bad: but unluckily it had to perform to empty benches.

I would recommend all the brave sons of