JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL - filial affection of the negroes - fried squirrels
and coffee - Baltimore - the mighty Susquana - intrepidity of a slave - how
rewarded - Wilmington - Brandywine - grist mills - the battle - Chester -
arrival at Philadelphia
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
