Letters of a Traveller; Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and AmericaBryant, William Cullen
General
Letters of a Traveller; Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America
Bryant, William Cullen
Cuba -- Description and travel; Europe -- Description and travel; United States -- Description and travel
Letter XX.—Works of Art.—Power's Greek Slave.—Exhibition of the Royal
Academy.—Turner's late Pictures.—Webster.—Thorburn.—New Houses of
Parliament.—Artists in Water-Colors.
Letter XXI.—The Parks of London.—Their Extent.—Want of Parks in New
York.—Sweeping of the Streets.—Safety from Housebreaking.—Beggars.—
Increase of Poverty.
Letter XXII.—Edinburg.—The Old Town.—The Castle.—Solid Architecture of
the New Town.—Views from the different Eminences.—Poverty in the Wynds
and Alleys.—Houses of Refuge for the Destitute.—Night Asylums for the
Houseless.—The Free Church.—The Maynooth Grant.—Effect of Endowments.
Letter XXIII.—Fishwomen of Newhaven.—Frith of Forth.—Stirling.—
Callander.—The Trosachs.—Loch Achray.—Loch Katrine.—Loch Lomond.
—Glenfalloch.—Dumbarton.—The Leven.
Letter XXIV.—Glasgow.—Its Annual Fair.—Its Public Statues.—The Free
Church.—Free Church College.—Odd Subject of a Sermon.—Alloway.—Burns's
Monument.—The Doon.—The Sea.—Burns's Birthplace.—The River Ayr.
Letter XXV.—Voyage to Ireland.—Ailsa Craig.—County of Down.—County of
Lowth.—Difference in the Appearance of the Inhabitants.—
Peat-Diggers.—A Park.—Samples of different Races of Men.—Round
Towers.—Valley of the Boyne.—Dublin.—Its Parks.—O'Connell.—The Repeal
Question.—Wall, the Artist.—Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Society.
Letter XXVI.—Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.—Humanity and Skill.—Quiet
Demeanor of the Patients.—Anecdotes of the Inmates.—The Corn-law
Question.—Coleman's Improvement on the Piano.
Letter XXVII.—Changes in Paris.—Asphaltum Pavements.—New and Showy
Buildings.—Suppression of Gaming-Houses.—Sunday Amusements.—Physical
Degeneracy.—Vanderlyn's Picture of the Landing of Columbus.
Letter XXVIII.—A Journey through the Netherlands.—Brussels.—Waterloo.
—Walloons and Flemings.—Antwerp.—Character of Flemish Art.—The
Scheldt.—Rotterdam.—Country of Holland.—The Hague.—Scheveling.—
Amsterdam.—Broek Saardam.—Utrecht.
Letter XXIX.—American Artists abroad.—Düsseldorf: Leutze.—German
Painters.—Florence: Greenough, Powers, Gray, G. L. Brown.—Rome: H. K.
Brown, Rossiter, Lang.
Letter XXX.—Buffalo.—The New Fort.—Leopold de Meyer.—Cleveland.—
Detroit.
Letter XXXI.—Trip from Detroit to Mackinaw.—The Chippewa Tribe.—The
River St. Clair.—Anecdote.—Chippewa Village.—Forts Huron and
Saranac.—Bob Low Island.—Mackinaw.
Letter XXXII.—Journey from Detroit to Princeton.—Sheboygan.—Milwaukie.
—Chicago.—A Plunge in the Canal.—Aspect of the Country.
Letter XXXIII.—Return to Chicago.—Prairie-Hens.—Prairie Lands of Lee
County.—Rock River District.
Letter XXXIV.—Voyage to Sault Ste. Marie.—Little Fort.—Indian Women
gathering Rice.—Southport.—Island of St. Joseph.—Muddy Lake.—Girdled
Trees.
Letter XXXV.—Falls of the St. Mary.—Masses of Copper and
Silver.—Drunken Indians.—Descent of the Rapids.—Warehouses of the
Hudson Bay Company.—Canadian Half-breeds.—La Maison de Pierre.—Tanner
the Murderer.
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