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 XXXVI.—Indians at the Sanlt.—Madeleine Island.—Indian
Dancing-girls.—Methodist Indians.—Indian Families.—Return to Mackinaw.
Letter XXXVII.—The Straits of Mackinaw.—American Fur Company.—Peculiar
Boats.—British Landing.—Battle-field.—Old Mission Church.—Arched Rock.
Letter XXXVIII.—Excursion to Southern New Jersey.—Easton.—The
Delaware.—The Water Gap.—Bite of a Copper-head snake.
Letter XXXIX.—The Banks of the Pocano.—Deer in the Laurel
Swamps.—Cherry Hollow.—The Wind Gap.—Nazareth.—Moravian Burying
Grounds.—A Pennsylvania German.
Letter XL.—Paint on Brick Houses.—The New City of Lawrence.—Oak Grove.
Letter XLI.—Islands of Casco Bay.—The Building of Ships.—A Seal in the
Kennebeck.—Augusta.—Multitude of Lakes.—Appearances of Thrift.
Letter XLII.—The Willey House.—Mount Washington.—Scenery of the White
Mountains.—A Hen Mother of Puppies.
Letter XLIII.—Passage to Savannah.—Passengers in the Steamer.—Old Times
in Connecticut.—Cape Hatteras.—Savannah.—Bonaventure.—Charleston.—
Augusta.
Letter XLIV.—Southern Cotton Mills.—Factory Girls.—Somerville.
Letter XLV.—The Florida Coast.—Key West.—Dangerous Navigation.—A
Hurricane and Flood.—Havana.
Letter XLVI.—Women of Cuba.—Airy Rooms.—Devotion of the Women.—Good
Friday.—Cascarilla.—Cemetery of Havana.—Funerals.—Cock-fighting.—
Valla de Gallos.—A Masked Ball.
Letter XLVII.—Scenery of Cuba.—Its Trees.—Sweet-Potato Plantation.—San
Antonio de los Barios.—Black and Red Soil of Cuba.—A Coffee Estate.—
Attire of the Cubans.
Letter XLVIII.—Matanzas.—Valley of Yumuri.—Cumbre.—Sugar
Estate.—Process of its Manufacture.
Letter XLIX.—Negroes in Cuba.—Execution by the Garrote.—Slave
Market.—African, Indian, and Asiatic Slaves.—Free Blacks in
Cuba.—Annexation of Cuba to the United States.
Letter L.—English Exhibitions of Works of Art.—The Society of
Arts.—Royal Academy.—Jews in Parliament.
Letter LI.—A Visit to the Shetland Isles.—Highland Fishermen.—Lerwick.
—Church-goers in Shetland.—Habitations of the Islanders.—The Noup of
the Noss.—Sheep and Ponies.—Pictish Castle.—The Zetlanders.—A Gale in
the North Sea.—Cathedral of St. Magnus.—Wick.
Letter LII.—Europe under the Bayonet.—Uses of the State of Siege.—The
Hungarians.—Bavaria.—St. Gall.—Zurich.—Target-shooting.—France.—
French Expedition to Rome.
Letter LIII.—Volterra; its Desolation.—The Balza.—Etruscan
Remains.—Fortress of Volterra.
Letters of a Traveller.
Letter I.
First Impressions of an American in France.
Paris, _August_ 9, 1834.
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