Salmagundi; or, The whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, esq. [pseud.] and others. By William Irving, James Kirke Paulding and Washington Irving. Printed from the original ed., with a preface and notes by Evert A. Duyckinck.

80 SALMAGUNDI.
peace-anecdote of a jury of crows —stopped to give the horses
water-good-looking man came up and asked me if I had seen
his wife? heavens! thought I, how strange it is that this virtuous
man should ask me about his wife-story of Cain and Abelstage-driver took a swig —mem. set down all the people as drunkards-old house had moss on the top-swallows built in the roof
-better place than old men's beards-story about that-derivation of words kippy, ]ippy, kippy, and shoo-pig* —legro driver
could not write his own name-languishing state of literature
in this country;t philosophical inquiry of'Sbidlikens, why the
Americans are so much inferior to the nobility of Cheapside and
Shore-ditch, and why they do not eat plum-pudding on Sundayssuperfine reflections about anything.
CHAPTER VI.
Trenton-built above the head of navigation to encourage
commerce-capital of the State-only wants a castle, a bay,
* Vide Carr's learned derivation of gee and whoe.
t Moore:
Is this the region then, is this the clime
For soaring fancies? for those dreams sublime,
Which all their miracles of light reveal
To heads that meditate and hearts that feel?
Alas! not so-the Muse of nature lights
Her glories round; she scales the mountain heights,
And roams the forests; every wondrous spot
Burns with her step, yet man regards it not.
She whispers round, her words are in the air,
But lost, unheard, they linger freezing there,
Without one breath of soul, divinely strong,
One ray of mind, to thaw them into song.
Epistle to the Hon. W. R. Spencer, from Buffalo, upon Lake Erie.