Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Sketches from Memory (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
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 h...