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.*
* * * * *
_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.
