The method in the chapters following has been to let the traveller tell his own story, interrupting him where he seems least interesting, adding very little, making him responsible for his version of the facts. It is not so much the itemized account that is wanted as the proceeds of the whole, the general balance as one impression. As many travellers, so many roads and they may follow but one. The young man will be apt to lose his temper and record disagreeable things. The great man, treated with consideration, will, if his digestion is good, be careful to be polite. The season will be a factor, for earth roads are not the same winter and summer. However, we should not be greatly deceived by the verdicts of eleven intelligent men who traverse the greater part of a given region during a space of thirty years. CONTENTS PAGE I. Narrative of John F. D. Smyth: 1769-1775 9 II. Anburey, and the Convention Army in Virginia: 1779 23 III. The Abbé Robin, One of the Chaplains to the French Army in America: 1781 31 IV. The Marquis of Chastellux, Major-General in the French Army and Member of the French Academy: 1782 39 V. Dr. Schoepf, Surgeon to the Hessian Troops (Ansbach-Bayreuth Division): 1783 49 VI. Count Castiglioni, Chevalier of the Order of St. Stephen, P. M.: 1786 61 VII. Missionary Journeys of Dr. Coke: 1785-1791 71 VIII. A Summer at Bath--Captain Bayard: 1791 81 IX. What Isaac Weld Saw: 1796 91 X. The Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt: 1796 111 XI. John Davis of Salisbury: 1801-1802 123 List of Travels 137 _I._ _NARRATIVE OF JOHN F. D. SMYTH._ _1769-1775._ _Captain Smyth--The Capes and Jamestown--Williamsburg and the Races--Richmond--Music of the Bullfrog--Blandford--Petersburg--Swede’s Bridge--Hicks’s Bridge--Mr. Willis--James River Lowgrounds--Summer Routine of the Planter. North Carolina--The Lower Sawra Towns--Journey to Kentucky--Indian Braves--Fort on Smith’s River--The Wart Mountain: Amazing Perspective--Judge Henderson’s Settlement._