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Niagara Aug 12th. 1853
My dear Sarah,
Mr Kennedy & myself made a delightful voyage along Lake Champlain on Wednesday last, while all the world was broiling on shore,--at Plattsburg we took the rail road for Ogdensburg–where we arrived between twelve and one at night.〈The〉Part of the next day I spent about the site of the old French Fort,〈which among〉in the ruined barracks of which I was quartered on my visits there fifty years since, with the Hoffmans and Ogdens. The whole surrounding country was then a wilderness–now it is covered with towns and villages,〈and we〉There was a grand
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congregation of Firemen companies at Ogdensburg–And Mr Kennedy & myself were invited to dine with them, but declined and embarked at 2 O’Clock on board of the Steamer Bay State for Lake Ontario It was my intention to land at Oswego & take the rail road for Syracuse but I found the steamer did not land there–So I continued on all night & landed this morning〈f〉at Lewistown–where Mr Kennedy & myself took a carriage for the falls.
I have passed the morning on Goat Island–seen the falls at every point of view and shall set off this afternoon on the rail road for Cayuga bridge where
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I shall take the steam boat tomorrow morning on Cayuga lake and stop at Charleys–
Mr Kennedy goes this evening to Buffalo to visit Mr Fillmore.
The weather is insufferably hot and I shall be glad to get at rest at Charleys where I can keep cool. I shall, however, stay there but a day or two for I am anxious to get home.
With love to all
Your affectionate uncle
W I.
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Marisa CalderioLanguage
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Washington Irving. Letters. Volume IV, 1846-1859. Aderman, Ralph M., Kleinfield, Herbert L. and Jenifer S. Banks. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982, p. 427.
