TALES AND SKETCHES

By Nathaniel Hawthorne


SKETCHES FROM MEMORY




CONTENTS:
I. The Inland Port.
II. Rochester .
III. A Night Scene



I. THE INLAND PORT.

It was a bright forenoon, when I set foot on the beach at Burlington,
and took leave of the two boatmen in whose little skiff I had voyaged
since daylight from Peru. Not that we had come that morning from South
America, but only from the New York shore of Lake Champlain. The
highlands of the coast behind us stretched north and south, in a double
range of bold, blue peaks, gazing over each other's shoulders at the
Green Mountains of Vermont.

The latter are far the loftiest, and, from the opposite side of the
lake, had displayed a more striking outline. We were now almost at
their feet, and could see only a sandy beach sweeping beneath a woody