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

shad on record--fanatical law of the
Quakers injurious to the fishery--sturgeon--extract from general
Lincoln on the migration of fishes
JOURNEY TO BALTIMORE--water-stage--Newcastle--Glasgow--the
Elk--bay of Chesapeake--arrival at Baltimore--yellow fever
BALTIMORE--situation--disadvantages of--the Dutch plan of canals
not adapted to a southern latitude--the former 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