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William Priest - Travels in the United States of America
TWO ANECDOTES - a gentleman blacksmith not ashamed of his origin - a high sheriff doing his duty
PHILADELPHIA - state of, in 1681 - Penn's arrival in 1701 - intended plan of the city - not observed -
situation - advantages of exports - entries in 1793 - buildings how constructed - houses removed intire -
new theatre - pleasure carriages - removal of the state government to Lancaster
MANNER OF LIVING OF THE PHILADELPHIANS - breakfast - dinner - supper - bad effects of such
diet - relishes in stile at an American tea-garden
BACK SETTLER - arrives at his purchase - builds his huts - manner of clearing the land - Indian corn -
advantages of - the black and grey squirrels - attacked by the Indians - extract - he escapes the scalping
knife - more comfortably situated - an idle back settler - his manner of life - what he calls liberty - joins
the Indians at war with the states - the demisavage copies only the black side of the Indian character
PENNSYLVANIA PLANTER - enjoys a happy state of mediocrity between riches and poverty - the
children how disposed of - the boys - effect of the religious education given to the girls not intirely
eradicated even by a brothel - a country sleighing match - another in Philadelphia in stile - a fiddler a
necessary apendage
FROGS - two extracts - they sit croaking to the wonderment of strangers - land of enchantment - frog
concert - how supported - treble - counter tenor - tenor - bass - fire-flies - night-hawks - probable effects
on an enthusiastic cockney
JOURNEY TO LANCASTER - the Pioli - Wayne's surprise - appointed to the command of the western
army - Indian war - shocking effects of - misunderstanding between the Canadians and American citizens
- accounted for - French agents - the British government vindicated - Proceed on the journey - charming
prospects - beauties of the Susquana destroys the navigation - arrival at Lancaster - rifle manufactory -
uncommon shot of two back woodsmen - Dutch schools - three concerts - two German sans culottes -
extracts from the regulations of the Hanover dancing assembly - German and Irish emigrants
FEDERAL COINAGE not approved of by the people - the new scheme contrasted with the old one -
advantages of an even division by the decimal
DELAWARE SHAD FISHERY - stupidity of the Anglo-Americans in giving English names to animals
peculiar to the new continent - length of the siens - greatest haul of 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
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