Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. [Illustration: GROUP OF INDIANS NEAR NIAGARA. Drawn & Etched by A. Hervieu.] IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA, DURING THE YEARS 1833, 1834, AND 1835. BY TYRONE POWER, ESQ. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty. 1836. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Page NAHANT 1 THE BALLOON 10 Taunton.--Cotton Manufactures.--Pocassett.--Rhode Island._ib._ NEWPORT 22 Rhode Island _ib._ BLOCK ISLAND 28 NEW YORK 32 Rockaway.--A Road Adventure. _ib._ JOURNAL 40 IMPRESSIONS OF PETERSBURG 82 Virginia _ib._ A Rhapsody 83 Impressions of Petersburg.--The deserted Church. 87 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 93 Total Eclipse of the Sun 102 SAVANNAH 117 COLUMBUS 132 TRAVELLING THROUGH THE CREEK NATION 140 The Alabama River down to Mobile _ib._ JOURNAL 162 NEW ORLEANS 171 American Theatre _ib._ French Theatre 175 NEW ORLEANS 178 Journal _ib._ The Theatre 189 Journal 192 MOBILE 211 NEW ORLEANS 227 THE LEVEE MARKET 247 JOURNAL RESUMED 252 NEW YORK 278 JOURNAL 291 A visit to Quebec, _via_ Lake Champlan and Montreal _ib._ The Sault au Recollect 305 GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE COUNTRY AND OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 339