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
