MANNER OF LIVING OF THE PHILADELPHIANS--breakfast--dinner--supper--bad effects of such diet--relishes in stile at an American tea-garden BACK SETTLER--arrives at his purchase--builds his huts--manner of clearing the land--Indian corn--advantages of--the black and grey squirrels-- attacked by the Indians--extract--he escapes the scalping knife--more comfortably situated--an idle back settler--his manner of life--what he calls liberty--joins the Indians at war with the states--the demisavage copies only the black side of the Indian character PENNSYLVANIA PLANTER--enjoys a happy state of mediocrity between riches and poverty--the children how disposed of--the boys--effect of the religious education given to the girls not intirely eradicated even by a brothel--a country sleighing match--another in Philadelphia in stile--a fiddler a necessary apendage FROGS--two extracts--they sit croaking to the wonderment of strangers-- land of enchantment--frog concert--how supported--treble--counter tenor-- tenor--bass--fire-flies--night-hawks--probable effects on an enthusiastic cockney JOURNEY TO LANCASTER--the Pioli--Wayne's surprise--appointed to the command of the western army--Indian war--shocking effects of-- misunderstanding between the Canadians and American citizens--accounted for--French agents--the British government vindicated--Proceed on the journey--charming prospects--beauties of the Susquana destroys the navigation--arrival at Lancaster--rifle manufactory--uncommon shot of two back woodsmen--Dutch schools--three concerts--two German sans culottes-- extracts from the regulations of the Hanover dancing assembly--German and Irish emigrants FEDERAL COINAGE not approved of by the people--the new scheme contrasted with the old one--advantages of an even division by the decimal DELAWARE SHAD FISHERY--stupidity of the Anglo-Americans in giving English names to animals peculiar to the new continent--length of the siens-- greatest haul of shad on record--fanatical law of the Quakers injurious to the fishery--sturgeon--extract from general Lincoln on the migration of fishes JOURNEY TO BALTIMORE--water-stage--Newcastle--Glasgow--the Elk--bay of Chesapeake--arrival at Baltimore--yellow fever BALTIMORE--situation--disadvantages of--the Dutch plan of canals not adapted to a southern latitude--the former race-course in the centre of the town--anecdote MANUFACTORIES--not the interest of the Americans to engage in them--why-- American iron--its malleability--two patents granted by Congress-- sawing-mills--ship-building SHOOTING AND FISHING--partridges--no game laws--woodcocks in August--the American ortolan--back woodsmen--their game--wild turkey--squirrel shooting--American fishing parties--how conducted INDIANS--genius for oratory, painting, and sculpture--their continence-- extract--the Indian student--the splenetic Indian--his remedy--seen in another point of view--the Indian orator--verses on an Indian burial-ground