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32 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN B. GOUGH.
pretty city. On Monday we got our luggage out of the steam¬
boat into a canal-boat, in which we stayed at Albany till four
o’clock, and then started for Utica. We sat very comfortable
on deck till sunset. By-the-by, we came through the locks,
which, I suppose you know, raised us a great many feet. We
then went down to bed. All slept very comfortably, except
Sarah, who was disturbed by the noise of the waters rushing into
the locks—for we passed a great many between Albany and
Schenectady. The first thing that struck our attention in the
morning was the Mohawk Kiver, running by our side. It is a
broad and shallow river. About eleven o’clock we crossed the
Mohawk over an aqueduct, and went on shore to get some apples.
(In this country people may go into an orchard, and get as many
apples as they can eat.)
Nothing material occurred till the next day. When we had
arrived at Little Falls, the sight was grander than anything we
had seen before. The village is built on a solid rock. It is of
no use for me to describe it to you, for it is too truly out of my
power. I do believe that England cannot boast such a sight —
much as I love my native country. You can have no idea of
the romantic scenery all around, unless you were here to see it
yourself. We arrived at Utica at midnight; but did not go on
shore till Thursday. We took lodgings at a person’s house, the
name of Brown, on Bleeker Street, at $7 per month; but we left
it after we had heen there three weeks, and came to the farm
which master had bought. Our waggon came and fetched us to this
place. The farm is very comfortable, consisting of one hundred
and four acres of clear land, and fifty acres of woodland, with a
fine orchard and garden, a very comfortable dwelling-house,
where we lived, and a nice log-house. There is also a wood-house,
a waggon and sleigh lodge, three hog-pens, a granary, stable, two
barns, two cow-lodges, smoke-house, and a good pump. The
stock consists of three cows; but master talks of having eighteen
or twenty in the summer; two horses, three fatting hogs, seven
pigs, fifty sheep, a bull, and a calf. I like driving our team
about. A team in this country is two horses. Our waggon is