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THE INLAND PORT.</h3> + +<p> +It was a bright forenoon, when I set foot on the beach at Burlington, and took +leave of the two boatmen in whose little skiff I had voyaged since daylight +from Peru. Not that we had come that morning from South America, but only from +the New York shore of Lake Champlain. The highlands of the coast behind us +stretched north and south, in a double range of bold, blue peaks, gazing over +each other’s shoulders at the Green Mountains of Vermont. +</p> + +<p> +The latter are far the loftiest, and, from the opposite side of the lake, had +displayed a more striking outline. We were now almost at their feet, and could +see only a sandy beach sweeping beneath a woody bank, around the semicircular +Bay of Burlington. +</p> + +<p> +The painted lighthouse on a small green island, the wharves and warehouses, +with sloops and schooners moored alongside, or at anchor, or spreading their +canvas to the wind, and boats rowing from point to point, reminded me of some +fishing-town on the sea-coast. +</p> + +<p> +But I had no need of tasting the water to convince myself that Lake Champlain +was not all arm of the sea; its quality was evident, both by its silvery +surface, when unruffled, and a faint but unpleasant and sickly smell, forever +steaming up in the sunshine. One breeze of the Atlantic with its briny +fragrance would be worth more to these inland people than all the perfumes of +Arabia. On closer inspection the vessels at the wharves looked hardly +seaworthy,—there being a great lack of tar about the seams and rigging, +and perhaps other deficiencies, quite as much to the purpose. +</p> + +<p> +I observed not a single sailor in the port. There were men, indeed, in blue +jackets and trousers, but not of the true nautical fashion, such as dangle +before slopshops; others wore tight pantaloons and coats preponderously +long-tailed,—cutting very queer figures at the masthead; and, in short, +these fresh-water fellows had about the same analogy to the real “old salt” +with his tarpaulin, pea-jacket, and sailor-cloth trousers, as a lake fish to a +Newfoundland cod. +</p> + +<p> +Nothing struck me more in Burlington, than the great number of Irish emigrants. +They have filled the British Provinces to the brim, and still continue to +ascend the St. Lawrence in infinite tribes overflowing by every outlet into the +States. At Burlington, they swarm in huts and mean dwellings near the lake, +lounge about the wharves, and elbow the native citizens entirely out of +competition in their own line. Every species of mere bodily labor is the +prerogative of these Irish. Such is their multitude in comparison with any +possible demand for their services, that it is difficult to conceive how a +third part of them should earn even a daily glass of whiskey, which is +doubtless their first necessary of life,—daily bread being only the +second. +</p> + +<p> +Some were angling in the lake, but had caught only a few perch, which little +fishes, without a miracle, would be nothing among so many. A miracle there +certainly must have been, and a daily one, for the subsistence of these +wandering hordes. The men exhibit a lazy strength and careless merriment, as if +they had fed well hitherto, and meant to feed better hereafter; the women +strode about, uncovered in the open air, with far plumper waists and brawnier +limbs as well as bolder faces, than our shy and slender females; and their +progeny, which was innumerable, had the reddest and the roundest cheeks of any +children in America. +</p> + +<p> +While we stood at the wharf, the bell of a steamboat gave two preliminary +peals, and she dashed away for Plattsburgh, leaving a trail of smoky breath +behind, and breaking the glassy surface of the lake before her. Our next +movement brought us into a handsome and busy square, the sides of which were +filled up with white houses, brick stores, a church, a court-house, and a bank. +Some of these edifices had roofs of tin, in the fashion of Montreal, and +glittered in the sun with cheerful splendor, imparting a lively effect to the +whole square. One brick building, designated in large letters as the +custom-house, reminded us that this inland village is a port of entry, largely +concerned in foreign trade and holding daily intercourse with the British +empire. In this border country the Canadian bank-notes circulate as freely as +our own, and British and American coin are jumbled into the same pocket, the +effigies of the King of England being made to kiss those of the Goddess of +Liberty. +</p> + +<p> +Perhaps there was an emblem in the involuntary contact. There was a pleasant +mixture of people in the square of Burlington, such as cannot be seen +elsewhere, at one view; merchants from Montreal, British officers from the +frontier garrisons, French Canadians, wandering Irish, Scotchmen of a better +class, gentlemen of the South on a pleasure tour, country squires on business; +and a great throng of Green Mountain boys, with their horse-wagons and +ox-teams, true Yankees in aspect, and looking more superlatively so, by +contrast with such a variety of foreigners. +</p> + +<h3>II. ROCHESTER</h3> + +<p> +The gray but transparent evening rather shaded than obscured the scene, leaving +its stronger features visible, and even improved by the medium through which I +beheld them. The volume of water is not very great, nor the roar deep enough to +be termed grand, though such praise might have been appropriate before the good +people of Rochester had abstracted a part of the unprofitable sublimity of the +cascade. The Genesee has contributed so bountifully to their canals and +mill-dams, that it approaches the precipice with diminished pomp, and rushes +over it in foamy streams of various width, leaving a broad face of the rock +insulated and unwashed, between the two main branches of the falling river. +Still it was an impressive sight, to one who had not seen Niagara. I confess, +however, that my chief interest arose from a legend, connected with these +falls, which will become poetical in the lapse of years, and was already so to +me as I pictured the catastrophe out of dusk and solitude. It was from a +platform, raised over the naked island of the cliff, in the middle of the +cataract that Sam Patch took his last leap, and alighted in the other world. +Strange as it may appear,—that any uncertainty should rest upon his fate +which was consummated in the sight of thousands,—many will tell you that +the illustrious Patch concealed himself in a cave under the falls, and has +continued to enjoy posthumous renown, without foregoing the comforts of this +present life. But the poor fellow prized the shout of the multitude too much +not to have claimed it at the instant, had he survived. He will not be seen +again, unless his ghost, in such a twilight as when I was there, should emerge +from the foam, and vanish among the shadows that fall from cliff to cliff. +</p> + +<p> +How stern a moral may be drawn from the story of poor Sam Patch! Why do we call +him a madman or a fool, when he has left his memory around the falls of the +Genesee, more permanently than if the letters of his name had been hewn into +the forehead of the precipice? +</p> + +<p> +Was the leaper of cataracts more mad or foolish than other men who throw away +life, or misspend it in pursuit of empty fame, and seldom so triumphantly as +he? That which he won is as invaluable as any except the unsought glory, +spreading like the rich perfume of richer fruit from various and useful deeds. +</p> + +<p> +Thus musing, wise in theory, but practically as great a fool as Sam, I lifted +my eyes and beheld the spires, warehouses, and dwellings of Rochester, half a +mile distant on both sides of the river, indistinctly cheerful, with the +twinkling of many lights amid the fall of the evening. +</p> + +<p> +The town had sprung up like a mushroom, but no presage of decay could be drawn +from its hasty growth. Its edifices are of dusky brick, and of stone that will +not be grayer in a hundred years than now; its churches are Gothic; it is +impossible to look at its worn pavements and conceive how lately the forest +leaves have been swept away. The most ancient town in Massachusetts appears +quite like an affair of yesterday, compared with Rochester. Its attributes of +youth are the activity and eager life with which it is redundant. The whole +street, sidewalks and centre, was crowded with pedestrians, horsemen, +stage-coaches, gigs, light wagons, and heavy ox-teams, all hurrying, trotting, +rattling, and rumbling, in a throng that passed continually, but never passed +away. Here, a country wife was selecting a churn from several gayly painted +ones on the sunny sidewalk; there, a farmer was bartering his produce; and, in +two or three places, a crowd of people were showering bids on a vociferous +auctioneer. I saw a great wagon and an ox-chain knocked off to a very pretty +woman. Numerous were the lottery offices,—those true temples of +Mammon,—where red and yellow bills offered splendid fortunes to the world +at large, and banners of painted cloth gave notice that the “lottery draws next +Wednesday.” At the ringing of a bell, judges, jurymen, lawyers, and clients, +elbowed each other to the court-house, to busy themselves with cases that would +doubtless illustrate the state of society, had I the means of reporting them. +The number of public houses benefited the flow of temporary population; some +were farmer’s taverns,—cheap, homely, and comfortable; others were +magnificent hotels, with negro waiters, gentlemanly landlords in black +broad-cloth, and foppish bar-keepers in Broadway coats, with chased gold +watches in their waistcoat-pockets. I caught one of these fellows quizzing me +through an eye-glass. The porters were lumbering up the steps with baggage from +the packet boats, while waiters plied the brush on dusty travellers, who, +meanwhile, glanced over the innumerable advertisements in the daily papers. +</p> + +<p> +In short, everybody seemed to be there, and all had something to do, and were +doing it with all their might, except a party of drunken recruits for the +Western military posts, principally Irish and Scotch, though they wore Uncle +Sam’s gray jacket and trousers. I noticed one other idle man. He carried a +rifle on his shoulder and a powder-horn across his breast, and appeared to +stare about him with confused wonder, as if, while he was listening to the wind +among the forest boughs, the hum and bustle of an instantaneous city had +surrounded him. +</p> + +<h3>A NIGHT SCENE</h3> + +<p> +The steamboat in which I was passenger for Detroit had put into the mouth of a +small river, where the greater part of the night would be spent in repairing +some damages of the machinery. +</p> + +<p> +As the evening was warm, though cloudy and very dark, I stood on deck, watching +a scene that would not have attracted a second glance in the daytime, but +became picturesque by the magic of strong light and deep shade. +</p> + +<p> +Some wild Irishmen were replenishing our stock of wood, and had kindled a great +fire on the bank to illuminate their labors. It was composed of large logs and +dry brushwood, heaped together with careless profusion, blazing fiercely, +spouting showers of sparks into the darkness, and gleaming wide over Lake +Erie,—a beacon for perplexed voyagers leagues from land. +</p> + +<p> +All around and above the furnace, there was total obscurity. No trees or other +objects caught and reflected any portion of the brightness, which thus wasted +itself in the immense void of night, as if it quivered from the expiring embers +of the world, after the final conflagration. But the Irishmen were continually +emerging from the dense gloom, passing through the lurid glow, and vanishing +into the gloom on the other side. Sometimes a whole figure would be made +visible, by the shirtsleeves and light-colored dress; others were but half +seen, like imperfect creatures; many flitted, shadow-like, along the skirts of +darkness, tempting fancy to a vain pursuit; and often, a face alone was +reddened by the fire, and stared strangely distinct, with no traces of a body. +In short these wild Irish, distorted and exaggerated by the blaze, now lost in +deep shadow, now bursting into sudden splendor, and now struggling between +light and darkness, formed a picture which might have been transferred, almost +unaltered, to a tale of the supernatural. As they all carried lanterns of wood, +and often flung sticks upon the fire, the least imaginative spectator would at +once compare them to devils condemned to keep alive the flames of their own +torments. +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCHES FROM MEMORY ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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