. Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive: . must needs be made of hisskill in an art meaner than music, yet far more es-sential—the art of pie-making and pudding-ry. No-where (short of Felixs in the Passage Panorama atParis) will you eat such delicate and curious varie-ties of pastry as at the hostelry of romantic fingers that wander over the keys of the sol-emn organ with such poetical dreaminess, and turnover a zoophyte or trilobite with appreciative cogni-zance, (for he is a mineralogist, too, and has col-lected a curious cabinet of specimens from thegorges of the Falls,)
. Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive: . must needs be made of hisskill in an art meaner than music, yet far more es-sential—the art of pie-making and pudding-ry. No-where (short of Felixs in the Passage Panorama atParis) will you eat such delicate and curious varie-ties of pastry as at the hostelry of romantic fingers that wander over the keys of the sol-emn organ with such poetical dreaminess, and turnover a zoophyte or trilobite with appreciative cogni-zance, (for he is a mineralogist, too, and has col-lected a curious cabinet of specimens from thegorges of the Falls,) are daily employed in prepar-ing, for the promiscuous sweet tooth of the pub-lic, pies worthy of being confined to Heliogabalusand the ladies. The truth is, that, were humanallotments as nicely apportioned, and placed in asrespective an each-other-age as the ingredients ofMr. Moores pies, Mr. Moore would never havelearned the trade of a baker. Happy they, notwith-standing, to whom the world says, Friend, go up 60 TRENTON FALLS V f:> 1 m^. hio-lier! tlioiio-h in this case it wouldbe only in intellectual gradation,as the calling of hotel-keeper is, inour country, half a magistracy, fromthe importance and responsibility ofits duties, and one which (by pub-lic consent daily strength-ening) demands and befitsMr. Moore(to finishhis biog-,. raphy,) a gentleman. came here twenty years ago, to enjoy the sceneryof which he had heard so much ; and, o-ettino- a se-vere fall in climbing the rocks, was- for some timeconfined to his bed at the hotel, then kept by , of trout-fishing memory. The kind carewith which he was treated resulted in an attachmentfor one of the daughters of the family, his presentwife; he came back, wedded his fair nurse andTrenton for the remainder of his life, and is now the ILLUSTRATED. 61 owner and host of the very lovehest scenery-hauntin all our picturesque country. Of course you are impatient for me and my pento get to the Falls—but that deep-dow
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