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William Priest - Travels in the United States of America
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
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