CONTENTS Departure from England - Storm during the Voyage A fine day on the Ocean-The 4th of July-Yankee Doodle— First sight of Land-Dressing for Landing-A News-boat- - The Battery-Negroes - Broadway City Hall - Private Journey to Philadelphia-Philadelphia - Schuylkill Coal- Literary Societies-Benevolent Institutions-Sunday Schools Baltimore-The Cathedral-Monuments - Charles Carroll -His Death and Funeral-Population of the City-Religion -Slaves and free Servants--Articles of Exportation-Journey to Washington - Washington - Departure for Virginia – Richmond. - Public Buildings - Monument for the Persons who perished in the Theatre - Slave Auction Condition of Slaves in the United States Dangers attached to an im- Tobacco Manufactory at Richmond-Departure for Norfolk Monument to the Memory of Walter Scott- General Hayne-Nullification, its object, progress, and termi- THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN 1832, 1833, AND 1834. CHAPTER I. The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impressions. The vast space of water that separates the hemispheres is like a blank page in existence. There is no gradual transition by which, as in Europe, the features and population of one country blend almost imperceptibly with those of another. From the moment you lose sight of the land you have left, all is vacancy, until you step on the opposite shore, and are launched at once into the bustle and novelties of another world. WASHINGTON IRVING. THE Southern coast of beautiful England insensibly disappeared before my eyes from the deck of the American packet, I tried in vain to get a last glimpse of the British Isles. The mantle of night enveloped in obscurity the verdant hills of Cornwall. Adieu to Europe. VOL. I. B |