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.

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NO. XVI.-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1807.
STYLE, AT BALLSTON.
BY WILLIAM W1ZARD, ESQ.
OTWITHSTANDING Evergreen has never been abroad,
nor had his understanding enlightened, or his views enlarged by that marvellous sharpener of the wits, a salt water
voyage, yet he is tolerably shrewd, and correct, in the limited
sphere of his observations; and now and then astounds me with
a right pithy remark, which would do no discredit even to a man
who had made the grand tour.
In several late conversations at Cockloft Hall, he has amused
us exceedingly by detailing sundry particulars concerning that notorious slaughter-house of time, Ballston Springs, where he
spent a considerable part of the last summer. The following is
a summary of his observations.
Pleasure has passed through a variety of significations at
Ballston. It originally meant nothing more than a relief from
pain and sickness; and the patient who had journeyed many a
weary mile to the Springs, with a heavy heart and emaciated
form, called it pleasure when he threw by his crutches, and
danced away from them with renovated spirits and limbs jocund
with vigor. In process of time, pleasure underwent a refine