Leave Portsmouth-Digression on Economical Travel- ling-Chillicothe-Progress of a Scotch Family--Game -Trees and Shrubs-Rolled Pieces of Primitive Lexington-Paper Currency-Bankers-Menials-Ha- bits-Prices of Live Stock-Provisions, &c.-Sla- very, and its Effects-Recrimination against Illiberal Outline of the American Constitution-From the Fre- quency of Revolutions in Europe, the Instability of the American Republic is not to be inferred................ 179 tutions Banks Climate Notice of three Indian Chiefs-Remarks on the Indian People........................................ Descend the Ohio from Cincinnati to Madison-Notices of a Scotch Settlement-Excess of Male Popula- Passage from the Falls of the Ohio to Cincinnati--Jour- ney to Lake Erie-the Great Sciota--Pickaway Plains Passage on Lake Erie-The Falls of Niagara-Passage on Lake Ontario-Descend the River St. Lawrence- 270 287 ERRATA. In consequence of the author's absence, when the following sheets passed through the press, the number of mistakes in the printing is considerable. Some of them, he is sorry to find, materially affect the sense of the passages Page 8. line 7. for removed read occasioned. 13. line 16. after liberation insert it is to be feared that. 32. line 22. for picture read pictures. 41. line 4. for Iuniata read Juniata. 48. line 29. for this insert the State of Ohio. 54. line 23. for rice read rue. 54. line 34. for rise read vise. 56. line 11. for State read States. 58. line 12. for inequality read declivity. 60. line 22. for extensively read extensive that are 63. line 7. for derived read derives. 69. line 33. for piled up read peeled 74. line 16. after hostess insert here. 79. line 28. for rivers read river. 97. line 5. for Falipifera read Tulipefera. 101. line 15. for their read then. 121. line 30. for Castilians read Castilian. 137. line 12. for rivers read river. 148. line 14. for improved read unimproved. 152. line 2. for explanatory examples, read an explanatory example. 160. line 27. for Pleiro read Plein. 175. line 10. for ministerialist read ministerialists. 176. last line, for Burton's read Buxton's. 232. second line from the bottom delete then 236. line 18. for P. M. read A. M. 240. line 32. for these read that. 257. line 7. for fall read falls. 258. line 25. after this insert together with. 265. last line for Alabana read Alabama. 266. line 33. for come read coming. 274. line 28. for ditch read wall. LETTERS FROM AMERICA. LETTER I. Voyage from Greenock to New York-Circumstances of Passengers-Arrival, &c. New York, July 10, 1818. As I have already informed you, I sailed from Greenock on the 24th of May last, in the American ship Glenthorn, Stillman Master, bound for this place. I observed that my fellow emigrants were much affected when about to take a final leave of their native land: some regretting the separation from their native soil, while others, mute and thoughtful, seemed to suffer under feelings of a more tender kind. To some it may appear inconsistent in people to regret leaving their homes and their friends, while the emigration is voluntarily undertaken; but on this occasion, the paradox will be explained, when their circumstances and views are taken into consideration. Of our party were three farmers, with their families, whose leases were expired; all of them having declined engaging for a new term of years, B under the apprehension of seeing their paternal stock, and the savings of many years' industry, divided between the landholder and the collector of taxes. A native of Scotland, who had resided several years in America, returned with the intention of resuming business in the town where he was born, but the thick ranks of a necessitous and half employed population, had closed on the place he had left. There was a widow, with two children, on her way to put herself under the protection of a brother in America. With us also were several of the labouring class, whose utmost exertions could only procure the bare support of existence; and ploughmen, who prudently refrained from marrying with fourteen pounds a-year. In short, there was scarcely one of our number whose condition might not perhaps be bettered, or whose prospects could be rendered worse, by the change of country. In a voyage from Europe to America, most passengers may expect to be sea-sick. Nearly all of them on board the Glenthorn, on this occasion, suffered more or less. For my own part, I never was entirely free from it for more than three-fourths of the passage. This disease is dispiriting while it continues, but as it is believed to produce no permanent injury, but, on the contrary, is thought conducive to future health, the attack is not at all dreaded. People unaccustomed to the seafaring life ought to carry with them those kinds of provisions to which they have been previously accustomed, as the stores of the ship soon become loathsome to the sick. Potatoes will be found acceptable, when the caprice of taste rejects almost every other food; and walking on deck is of service, as the air is better, and the pitching of the ship is considerably less felt, than below. |