--Reflections suggested by inspecting the Egyptian Obelisk.
--Considerations of the Author on the same subject; an anecdote of a
Mohawk Indian who became an Actor at New York.--Anecdote of a Scottish
Fanatic who arrived in Rome to convert the Pope.--Sequel of the
Adventure.--The Artist prepares to visit England.--Having completed
his St. Jerome, after Corregio's famous picture, he is elected an
Honorary Member of the Academy of Parma, and invited to Court.--He
proceeds by the way of Genoa towards France.--Reflections on the Stale
of Italy.--Adventure on reaching the French frontiers.--State of
Taste in France.





The Life and Studies of Benjamin West




Chap. I.



The Birth and Paternal Ancestry of Mr. West.--His Maternal
Family.--His Father.--The Origin of the Abolition of Slavery by the
Quakers.--The Progress of the Abolition.--The Education of the
Negroes.--The Preaching of Edmund Peckover.--His Admonitory Prediction
to the Father of West.--The first Indication of Benjamin's
Genius.--State of Society in Pennsylvania.--The Indians give West the