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 as I must return with her, to spend the hundred and ninety-two hours in America. Certainly it is but a week, but a week well spent is, perhaps, long enough to see New York, the Hudson, the Mohawk Valley, Lake Erie, Niagara, and all the country made familiar by Cooper.

"Ah! you are going to the Niagara!" cried Dean Pitferge. "I'll declare I should not be sorry to see it again, and if my proposal does not seem very disagreeable to you—"

The worthy Doctor amused me with his crotchets. I had taken a fancy to him, and here was a well-instructed guide placed at my service.

"That's settled, then," said I to him.

A quarter of an hour later we embarked on the tender and at three o'clock were comfortably lodged in two rooms of Fifth Avenue Hotel.