Book/Printed Material Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the summer and autumn of 1819; illustrative of the character of the native Indians, and of the descent from the lost ten tribes of Israel; as well as descriptive of the present situation and sufferings of emigrants, and of the soil and state of agriculture.
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Image 81 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 59 2 feet high. At Plainfields, land is worth 100 dollars per acre,—this neighbourhood, from 150 to 200 dollars; about half the price it bore some time ago.—The charges at the hotels,…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 82 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 60 independence. The quadrupeds are by no means well preserved, except in one or two instances. The wolf devouring a lamb is, perhaps, the best executed. The collection of birds, principally indigenous…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 83 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 61 and extermination continue,—these people, who are fast delining and contracting their boundaries,—will shortly be known only in the record of Christian violence, towards those whom they please to term savages, and…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 84 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 62 Sixth month, 22nd.—I dined with my friends J. Midgeley and R. Gallon, from England, at the Washington hotel, whence R. G. and myself went to see the spot where William Penn…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 85 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 63 growing finely, and promises to become as large as its parent. Sixth month, 24th.—Visited the Pensylvania general hospital, in company with E. Wilson and several other English merchants. The painting of…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 86 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 64 larger than life, of William Penn, is placed on a tablet of white marble, bearing on the pannels the following inscriptions; front, south, “William Penn, born 1644, died 1718,” in the…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 87 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 65 kitchen garden and green-houses are the best I have seen in this country. The more I see of this city, and the more I admire it. Many of the new houses…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 88 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 66 of friends before our meeting. J. Smith, of this city, shewed me one of these certificates, on parchment, which I found ran in nearly the same words, as those in the…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 89 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 67 but both it and the rooms were in a wretched dirty state. The cloth was not equal to what the machinery apparently could produce. The men complained of wages; and I…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 90 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 68 astonishing to a European, have a romantically beautiful appearance. Sixth month, 29th.—Excessively hot, the thermometor standing in the shade 95°, in the sun 150°. In the afternoon, wishing to visit Lemon-hill,…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 91 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 69 distant, 100 feet above the surface of the water. From this hill, we had a fine view of 2. permament wood bridges, erected over this river, one with 3 arches, and…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 92 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 70 protected from the weather above, and the water beneath, they derive the name of permament bridges. Seventh month, 4th. Being 1st day, I walked to Merion meeting, 8 miles. This meeting…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 93 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 71 native land of loveliness and enjoyment. The black cherry and raspberry were ripe, and hung in spontaneous abundance in the woods. The fine, clear vault of heaven, unspotted with a cloud,…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 94 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 72 whence the spirit of that diversion was derived, whilst I lamented that the worst features of the people where it sprung should be retained, and that too with a sensible gust,…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 95 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 73 LETTER V. New York, 7 th Month, 18 th , 1819. AFTER a long delay and much rambling through these eastern cities, I am preparing to visit the New England states,…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 96 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 74 soil a sandy loam,—some fine crops of Indian corn;—wheat, and oats were got, and carried into small round ricks of about 3 English waggon loads, but very slovenly. On the whole…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 97 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 75 the colour of the bricks, and the style of the buildings, all tend to generate that idea. But there was one thing that would not permit an Englishman to dream himself…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 98 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 76 yet the stock looked better than in some other places. Walking before the stage out of Baltimore some miles, I gathered in the woods a variety of indigenous plants, amongst others…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 99 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 77 The President's house situated on an eminence at the opposite end of the Pensylvania avenue, is built of the same stone as the capitol, and in the same style. Pensylvania avenue…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 100 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 78 harbour is indisputably excellent, and the Potowmac, though not navigable except for small vessels near the banks of the city, is a majestic river, and the site of the city for…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 101 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 79 people. The way is open, unfrequented, and the hostile army may advance to the very capital and behold at a distance a few timid placemen flying before them. The soil, to…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 102 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 80 system which levels the spirit of man with the dust, and teaches it to enjoy its grovelling,—or which holds a rod of terror before a wretch's eyes, capable of extinguishing the…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 103 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 81 are doing better here than in most places I have seen; though they complain sadly, and express their anxiety to return. Mechanics appear to be tolerably paid for their labour, but…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 104 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 82 three negroes for that purpose,—whose persons and the manner in which they mangle their meat, are equally disgusting. S. S's. wife and daughter arrived at Alexandria whilst I was at Washington,…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 105 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 83 even amidst the effulgence of her light. The birds in the woods were chanting their morning carols; and, amongst their notes, those of the melancholy whip-poor-will and the voluble and ever-variable…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 106 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 84 you of the bad state of the laws here, which give security to trade; nor can I make you more sensible of it than by inserting the following document, put into…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 107 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 85 credits. That there are Merchants in America, and many of them as upright, as conscientious, as honest, and as punctual, as can be found in any part of the world, I…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 108 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 86 he is considered as having stopped payment, and he immediately sets himself about disposing of the property remaining in his possession, to whomsoever of his Creditors he may think proper, by…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 109 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 87 affairs of the insolvent,—and being consulted, at least, on the best measures existing exigencies might require. How different is the practice; the Assignment, in the form just described, is made without…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 110 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 88 the ablest American lawyers, says on the subject:—“The principles of the Insolvent Law require only a “full surrender of the property, in the possession of the “insolvent at the time of…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 111 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 89 fate; the whole property having been previously assigned to preferred creditors, and the threat of exclusion executed even before it was made known. In this case, there will remain troublesome, oppressive…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 112 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 90 “never can be,—and the whole affair has become a “mere mockery, which the vulgar attend for their “amusement, and nobody looks to for any advantage. “I have known (said he) as…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 113 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 91 “field of fraud, corruption, and ruin, in which we see “the various modes resorted to, to give preference to “particular Creditors, to the utter exclusion of others “equally meritorious and just,—by…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 114 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 92 “long after it ought to have sunk, by whose means he “has been enabled to make purchases of goods from “honest unsuspecting venders: this indorser finally “carries off all the property,—perhaps…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 115 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 93 nominal possession. The assignees then advertise that such an assignment has been executed, and that they have duly appointed the insolvent their agent, to settle the concerns,—and if any turbulent creditor…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 116 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 94 be it said that they disdained to follow the almost universal rule of prefering one Creditor to the injury of another; the consequence is, they have found their best friends among…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 117 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 95 it is a lien upon the effects of the debtor, and must be paid at all events. The high duties on British Goods are bonded at a credit of eight, ten,…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 118 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 96 The following copies of recent Advertisements are exhibited to explain more fully, the coercive, and intimidating mode, of whipping in Creditors, according to the conditions of the Assignments. NOTICE. Whereas Charles…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 119 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 97 TO CREDITORS. The Creditors of the late house of Messrs. Comly and Allen, are hereby again informed, that their release is ready for signing at the store of Messrs. Folwell and…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
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Image 120 of Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the … 98 NOTICE. Whereas Henry J. Stuckert, Druggist, of Philadelphia, did execute, on the 14th instant, to John Stuckert, an assignment of all his Estate, real, personal, and mixed, in trust, according to…- Contributor: Howitt, E. (Emanuel) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1820-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Selections from letters written during a tour through the United States in the summer and autumn of 1819; illustrative of the character of the native Indians, and of the descent from the lost ten tribes of Israel; as well as descriptive of the present situation and sufferings of emigrants, and of the soil and state of agriculture.
Names
- Howitt, E. (Emanuel)
Created / Published
- Nottingham, 1820]
Headings
- - United States--Description and travel
- - United States--Economic conditions--To 1865
- - Indians of North America--Origin
Medium
- xxi, [1], 230 p. 18 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E165 .H86
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 01026839
OCLC Number
- 4370362
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- online text