[This e-text comes in three forms: Unicode (UTF-8), Latin-1 and ASCII. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --If “œ” displays as a single character, and apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the UTF-8 version (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --In the Latin-1 version, “œ” is two letters, but French words like “étude” have accents and “æ” is a single letter. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can’t get it to display properly, use: --The ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version. All necessary text will still be there; it just won’t be as pretty. Footnotes are numbered continuously within each volume. Bracketed paragraphs are in the original. Typographical errors and anomalies-- whether corrected or not-- are listed at the end of the e-text.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TRAVELS through NORTH AMERICA, during the YEARS 1825 AND 1826. * * * By His Highness, BERNHARD, DUKE OF SAXE-WEIMAR EISENACH. * * * IN TWO VOLUMES. * * * VOL. I. * * * PHILADELPHIA: CAREY, LEA & CAREY--CHESNUT STREET. Sold in New York by G. & C. Carvill. * * * 1828. EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit: Be it remembered, that on the seventh day of October, in the fifty-third year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1828, Carey, Lea and Carey of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: “Travels through North America, during the years 1825 and 1826. By his highness, Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach. In two volumes.” In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entituled, “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.” And also to the act, entitled, “An act supplementary to an act, entitled, ‘An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,’ and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.” D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Skerrett--Ninth Street, Philadelphia. PREFACE.