. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . ng acknowl-edgment of being one of the. loveliest cities in NewYork. CHAPTER YTIL SYRACUSE TO ROCHESTER. (!lu)entij-sutl) ?3att. Camillus House, Camillus, New York, Jane Third. OUXTED in front of the VanderbiltHouse, Syracuse, at four oclock in theafternoon. A large number of friendsand acquaintances had assembled to seeme off, among them many G
. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . ng acknowl-edgment of being one of the. loveliest cities in NewYork. CHAPTER YTIL SYRACUSE TO ROCHESTER. (!lu)entij-sutl) ?3att. Camillus House, Camillus, New York, Jane Third. OUXTED in front of the VanderbiltHouse, Syracuse, at four oclock in theafternoon. A large number of friendsand acquaintances had assembled to seeme off, among them many G. A. , including General Sniper andCaptain Auer; the latter a companionin Libby Prison during the late Babcock, who had been actingas an assistant to my advance agents, accom-panied me as far as Geddes, and arranged to co-operate with my brother and INIr. Farrington in ])rep-aration for my lecture. In passing through this littlesuburb of Geddes, whose name by the way, keeps inmemory one of the prominent men of OnondagaCounty, my attention was drawn to a fine buildingstanding on a hill, overlooking Syracuse. I learnedthat it was the New York Asylum for Imbeciles andthat the site, a magnificent sweep of upland, measur-8 (lo5). 5;Z^^ 156 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK. iiig fifty-five acres, was donated by the city. I wasstopped just west of here by a thunder shower and tookrefuge under a tree. P^m^ and I had waited for stormsto pass over before, and made excellent rainy-dayfriends. We rather enjoyed resting under someshelter until the dust was well laid and the air our arrival at Camillus, myself and horse were liter-ally covered with mud, the result of PauVs frij^dit on theapproach of a train at a point where it was impossibleto leave the turnpike. We were trotting along quietlyand had just turned a bend in the road when the quickear of .the horse caught the distant rumbling ofwheels. In an instant he was on the alert, and whenthe swift express cam
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