Return to New York--Conclusion The comfortable Adelphi Hotel again received us at Albany, on the 14th of June, and we decided upon passing the following day there, both to see the place, and to recruit our strength, which we began to feel we had taxed severely by a very fatiguing journey, in most oppressively hot weather.

It would have been difficult to find a better station for repose; the rooms were large and airy, and ice was furnished in most profuse abundance.
But notwithstanding the manifold advantages of this excellent hotel, I was surprised at the un-English arrangement communicated to me by two ladies with whom we made a speaking acquaintance, by which it appeared that they made it their permanent home.
These ladies were a mother and daughter; the daughter was an extremely pretty young married woman, with two little children.
Where the husbands were, or whether they were dead or alive, I know not; but they told me they had been _boarding_ there above a year.

They breakfasted, dined, and supped at the _table d'hote_, with from twenty to a hundred people, as accident might decide; dressed very smart, played on the piano, in the public sitting-room, and assured me they were particularly comfortable and well accommodated.

What a life! Some parts of the town are very handsome; the Town Hall, the Chamber of Representatives, and some other public buildings, stand well on a hill that overlooks the Hudson, with ample enclosures of grass and trees around them.
Many of the shops are large, and showily set out.

I was amused by a national trait which met me at one of them.