RETROSPECT OF WESTERN TRAVEL. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU, AUTHOR OF "SOCIETY IN AMERICA," "ILLUSTRATIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY," ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SAUNDERS AND OTLEY NEW-YORK: SOLD BY HARPER & BROTHERS. 1838. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Page Mississippi Voyage 5 Compromise 26 Cincinnati 35 Probation 57 The Natural Bridge 65 Colonel Burr 69 Villages 78 Cambridge Commencement 91 The White Mountains 108 Channing 117 Mutes and Blind 128 Nahant 155 Signs of the Times in Massachusetts 159 Hot and Cold Weather 169 Originals 186 Lake George 221 Cemeteries 227 RETROSPECT OF WESTERN TRAVEL. MISSISSIPPI VOYAGE. "That it was full of monsters who devoured canoes as well as men; that the devil stopped its passage, and sunk all those who ventured to approach the place where he stood; and that the river itself at last was swallowed up in the bottomless gulf of a tremendous whirlpool."--_Quarterly Review._ "Hic ver purpureum: varios hic flumina circum Fundit humus flores: hic candida populus antro Imminet, et lentæ texunt umbracula vites." VIRGIL.