Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

TRAVELS IN AMERICA.
drenched by the rain. She was delicate, and extremely afraid of
cold, and was shivering from head to foot: at last a friendly pin
was found, and behold-perhaps her lungs and her life were thus
saved!
When we arrived at Green Harbor, we found Mrs. Webster
very anxious for the poor rain-beaten wayfarers. She took every
kind care of me, and except a very slight soupron of a cold, the
next morning, I did not suffer any inconvenience. Mr. Webster
had complained of not being very well before (I think a slight attack of hay-asthma), but I was glad to meet him soon afterward
at dinner, not at all the worse for the tempestuous drive; and for
my part, I could most cordially thank him for the glorious panorama he had shown me, and the splendid drive through what seemed
almost interminable woods: and (since we had got safely through
it), I was not sorry to have witnessed the very excellent imitation
of the Flood which had been presented before (and some of it into)
my astonished eyes. Mr. Webster told me the drive through the
woods would have been extended, but for the rain, ten miles!
He took me the other day to a room I had not before visited,
and showed me a beautiful picture of a lovely and only daughter,
whom he had the great misfortune to lose last year.
I am about to leave this delightful place, for I have an engagement to go and dine at Nahant to-morrow, with Mr. and Mrs.
Prescott. The latter I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting.
I believe she has very delicate health.
I made acquaintance at Plymouth with a charming Mrs.
Thayer: her father is said to be the only American who possesses
and is universally known by an aristocratic title: he is the lineal
descendant of an ancient Dutch family. I believe the title is
"The Patroon."
I can not describe to you the almost adoration with which Mr.
Webster is regarded in New England. The newspapers chronicle
his every movement, and constantly contain anecdotes respecting
him, and he invariably is treated with the greatest respect by every
body, and, in fact, his intellectual greatness seems all but worshiped.
Massachusetts boasts, with a commendable pride and exultation,
that he is one of her children. A rather curious anecdote has been
going the round of the papers lately.. It appears Mr. Webster
was at Martha's Vineyard a short time ago, and he drove up to
the door of the principal hotel, at Edgartown, the capital, accompanied by some of his family, and attended, as usual, by his
colored servants. Now it must be observed that Mr. Webster has
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