Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797 | Page 2

race-course in the centre of the town--anecdote
MANUFACTORIES--not the interest of the Americans to engage in them--why-- American iron--its malleability--two patents granted by Congress-- sawing-mills--ship-building
SHOOTING AND FISHING--partridges--no game laws--woodcocks in August--the American ortolan--back woodsmen--their game--wild turkey--squirrel shooting--American fishing parties--how conducted
INDIANS--genius for oratory, painting, and sculpture--their continence-- extract--the Indian student--the splenetic Indian--his remedy--seen in another point of view--the Indian orator--verses on an Indian burial-ground
SCHEME OF A RIFLE CORPS--of forming the corps--rifles--powder-- accoutrements and dress--exercise
SPECULATION--the United States--the land of--100 acres of land for a dollar--flour--the mines--description of a coal-bank
CLIMATE--Cooper on this subject not to be depended upon--quotation from Jefferson--the N.W. wind not accounted for--Volney--his intended investigation
WHITE SLAVE TRADE--mortality on board a white Guineaman from Ireland-- Hibernian and German societies--the trade not allowed in New England--a German flesh-butcher sells his countrymen at Philadelphia during the fatal yellow fever of 1793
JOURNEY TO BOSTON--Pennsylvania the garden of the United States-- Bristol--Trentown--New Brunswick--New York--arrival in Yankee Land--land speculators harangue--interrupted--arrival at Boston--P.S.--dramatic mania--detestation of the primitive Bostonians to theatricals--are first introduced as moral lectures--the theatrical opposition
BATTLE OF BUNKER'S HILL--inscription from a monument on the scene of action--anecdotes of Cox, the celebrated bridge-architect--connects Boston with the Continent--goes to Ireland, where he builds seven bridges
BOSTON--situation--West Boston--advantages of the harbour--the long wharf--new theatre--university of Cambridge--new bridge a mile in length-- Irish market
BOSTONIAN FIRE ALARM--amateur firemen--negro incendiaries--good effects of their villainy
FANATICISM--Brownists--intolerance proved from their own writers-- rebellion against parents made a capital crime--smoaking tobacco and drinking healths forbidden--proclamation against wearing long hair-- persecution of the Quakers--Penn's retaliation--poetry
NEGRO SLAVERY--state of in the Southern, Middle, and New England Slates-- abolition society--extract from Jefferson's Virginia
YELLOW FEVER--a new disorder--first imported from the coast of Guinea to the West Indies in 1792--extract from Dr. Rush--a disorder fatal only to one race of men not new--plague among the red men--how accounted for by the fanatics--not to the satisfaction of a philosopher--age of the world proved to be 36,960 years from the falls of Niagara
AMERICAN FISHERY ON THE BANKS OK NEWFOUNDLAND--extract from Dr. Belknap-- dumb fish--how cured--merchantable--Jamaica fish--former and present state of the fishery
NEW ENGLAND STATES COMPARED WITH THOSE OF THE SOUTH--beauty of the women-- accounted for--general knowledge of the inhabitants--free schools--how supported--difference of climate
VOYAGE TO ENGLAND--journal--severe gale at N.E.--the vessel encrusted with ice--stand to the southward--the gulph stream--another gale--misfortunes-- arrival at Dover--conclusion
_ERRATA._
P. 11, 1.8, for _plantation_, read plantations.
32, 1.5 and 6, are a note having reference to p. 28, 1.11.
71, 1.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, are a note having reference to p. 68, 1.4.
131, 1.6, for _freeing_, read treeing.
146, the asterisk placed at the word vessel in the 13th line, should be placed at the word Newcastle in the 15th line.

*TRAVELS IN AMERICA.*
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_London, May 7th, 1797._
DEAR SIR,
Since my return, my friends have made a thousand inquiries respecting the state of America. I do not know how I can inform them of my sentiments on that subject better, than by having the rough draught I preserved of the letters I wrote to you from that country fairly copied for their use. If, like you, they are really my friends, they will take the will for the deed. The truth of my information, and my wish to contribute to their amusement, will be a sufficient apology for the many imperfections they will meet with, in the desultory epistles of
Yours very sincerely.
_Annapolis, December 1st, 1793._
DEAR FRIEND,
The enclosed extracts from my journal will I hope convince you, I have not entirely forgot my promise at parting. When at Philadelphia I delivered your letters to----. Believe me
Yours very sincerely.
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JOURNAL.
_Gravesend, on board the George Barclay,_
_31st of July, 1793._
Arrived onboard at 2 this afternoon, with an intention of sailing to Philadelphia: Gravesend is so called from it's being _the end of a sailors grave_, as those who die on a voyage after passing the fort are thrown over board.
_August 1st._
Got under weigh with a light breeze at S.W., which not being sufficient to stem the returning tide, we dropped out anchor again off the Nore light.
_Aug. 2nd_.--Weighed anchor with the wind at S.E., and on the morning of the 3rd; off Deal, sent a boat on shore, which soon returned with a supply of meat, water, sheep, poultry gin, and gingerbread; dismissed our pilot, and soon after doubted the South Foreland; the prospect of Dover and the adjacent coast delightful.
_Aug 8th_.--Beating to windward with a fresh breeze off the Lizard; finding it impossible to clear the land, put about, and by three in the afternoon were safe moored in Falmouth harbour. Went on shore; the lower order of the inhabitants chaunt, or rather speak in recitative, a strange dialect, in which I could distinguish several English words.
Took a walk to Pendennis castle, which protects the West entrance of the harbour; found it garrisoned by a party of invalides, who informed me they had