Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant
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Peninsula.--The Indian War.--Its Causes.--Causes of the Peace.--The
Everglades.--St. Mary's in Georgia.--Plague of Sand-Flies.--Alligator Shooting.--Tobacco Chewing. Letter XVI.--The Champlain Canal.--Beauty of its Banks.--Whitehall.-- Canadian French.--A Family setting out for the West.--The Michigan Lay.-- Vermont Scenery. Letter XVII.--Grasshoppers.--White Clover.--Domestic Arrangements of two unmarried Ladies.--Canadian French Laborers.--Quakers.--A Pretty Mantua Maker.--Anecdote told by a Quakeress.--Walpole.--Keene.--A Family of healthy young Women. Letter XVIII.--A Voyage to Liverpool.--Mountains of Wales.--Growth of Liverpool.--Aspect of the Place.--Zoological Gardens.--Cemetery among the Rocks.--Ornamental Cultivation.--Prince's Park.--Chester.--Manchester. --Calico Printing. Letter XIX.--Edale in Derbyshire.--A Commercial Traveller.--Chapel-en-le-Frith.--The Winnets.--Mam Tor.--Heathy Hills.--The Lark.--Caverns of the Peak of Derbyshire.--Castle of the Peverils.--People of Derbyshire.--Matlock.--Derby. Letter XX.--Works of Art.--Power's Greek Slave.--Exhibition of the Royal Academy.--Turner's late Pictures.--Webster.--Thorburn.--New Houses of Parliament.--Artists in Water-Colors. Letter XXI.--The Parks of London.--Their Extent.--Want of Parks in New York.--Sweeping of the Streets.--Safety from Housebreaking.--Beggars.-- Increase of Poverty. |
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