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Excerpt from Fourteen Months Canton We stayed four or five days in New York, and then went on to Niagara. The Falls far sur passed my most vivid imagination of them, and I felt that had they alone been the Object Of our journey, we should have been well repaid. The only mistake we made was in our selection of an hotel. We followed the advice Of some fellow travellers and remained on the American side of the Falls. The Canadian side is, I think, much more lovely, one is nearer to the Falls, and the View Of the Horse-shoe Fall from the windows Of the hotels which are situated close to it is most charming. After a three days' stay at Niagara we went on to Chicago, where we spent two days, and were much struck with the indefatigable industry Of the people in having raised such a noble town so quickly after the destruction Of the greater part of the Old city. We went on from Chicago to the Salt Lake City and stayed there at the Mormon Hotel, so that we might hear as much as possible of the saints and their doings. Mr. Townsend, the pro prietor of the hotel, was most willing to give all details of the Mormon belief and its practices, and made us several long visits in our sitting room, and talked until I felt so indignant that I could scarcely refrain from speaking out my mind. The position Of the Salt Lake City is lovely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical wo