Book/Printed Material Travels in North America, in the years 1827 and 1828. Volume 2
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Image 2 of Volume 2- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 3 of Volume 2 3 262 1992 TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1827 AND 1828. BY CAPTAIN BASIL HALL, R. N. F.R.S. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. THIRD EDITION. LC DISCARDED by Library, U.…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 5 of Volume 2 56382 CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND. CHAPTER I. Lake George, 2—Lake Champlain, 5—Springs of Saratoga, 7—Ignorance of America in England, 11—And of England in America, 19. CHAPTER II. Albany, 28—Legislature of New York,…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 6 of Volume 2 vi CHAPTER IX. Schools at Boston, 164—Education in America, 171. CHAPTER X. Boston, 183—Institutions at Hartford, 187—Newbaven, 200—Packets at New York, 207. CHAPTER XI. Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 7 of Volume 2 TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA. CHAPTER I. On the 7th of September, 1827, we recrossed the Canadian frontier, and found ourselves once more in the United States. Our route lay along Lake Champlain,…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 8 of Volume 2 2 ed under privations and cares, by reflections removed from the scenes round about them. I was much struck by the appearance of a female, better dressed than the rest of the…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 9 of Volume 2 3 George exceeded my expectations as far as it exceeds the power of the Americans to overpraise it, which is no small compliment. I began now to suspect, however, that they really…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 10 of Volume 2 4 Of all kinds of navigation that by steam is certainly the most unpleasant. There is, I fear, but a choice of miseries amongst the various methods of travelling by water, while…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
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Image 11 of Volume 2 5 In a few minutes half a dozen boats shot out from under the high bank near the village of Caldwell, and towed us speedily to land. This was a shortlived distress,…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
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Image 12 of Volume 2 6 In the cabin there was suspended a great staring lamp, trembling and waving about, in a style to make even a sailor giddy. While underneath its rays were stretched numberless weary…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 13 of Volume 2 7 much struck with the appearance of a town near us, and I asked an American gentleman what place it was. “Oh! don't you know? That is Plattsburgh—and there is the very…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 14 of Volume 2 8 drab coat reaching to the dust, stepped in between us, and with more bows in two minutes than I had seen altogether since landing in America, wished us a dozen good…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 15 of Volume 2 9 long while before we got any thing to eat. This we had expected; but our disappointment was more serious and lasting when we found that nearly all the company had gone…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 16 of Volume 2 10 manage to let themselves down into a state of professed idleness. Lake George, Saratoga, and Ticonderoga, which we visited, are all classical and popular spots in American history, while their names…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 17 of Volume 2 11 On the other hand, the Americans ought, I think, to remember, that good reasons may perhaps exist for our little acquaintance with such matters; yet I have often met with people…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 18 of Volume 2 12 it would be far more dignified to disregard altogether. I say this with the more confidence, because I hardly ever conversed with a reasonable American on the subject, who, when it…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 19 of Volume 2 13 supposed we ought, on many accounts, to have no inconsiderable acquaintance. Whether, upon the whole, it is better or worse for us, in a speculative point of view, that we lost…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 20 of Volume 2 14 actors in the scene, their children, and the race that has since grown up, have been stimulated by a thousand inspiring motives to dwell constantly, and with delighted interest, upon the…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 21 of Volume 2 15 probable, if the interval which has elapsed since the year 1783—the date of the American Peace—had been a mere commonplace leaf in history; or if we had imitated America in making…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
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Image 22 of Volume 2 16 candid American, how it would have been possible for us to look across the murky tempest of such days, in order to take a distinct view, or any view at all,…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
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Image 23 of Volume 2 17 general stock of Letters, little to our stock of Science, and scarcely any thing of importance to that of the Fine Arts; while, according to all our views of the matter,…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
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Image 24 of Volume 2 18 been less repulsive to English feelings and habits of thought on such matters, I do not say—nor is it my purpose now to enquire whether or not they are to blame…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 25 of Volume 2 19 instances, heard a word that implied the smallest degree of sympathy with the exertions which England, single-handed, had so long made to sustain the drooping cause of freedom. It will be…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 26 of Volume 2 20 them. I was also wellnigh provoked at this sometimes, till I recollected that an opinionated confidence in our own views, all the world over, is the most prominent characteristic of error.…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
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Image 27 of Volume 2 21 were to us, who failed. But there is this very material, and, I take the liberty of saying, characteristic difference between the two cases:—we have long ago forgotten and forgiven—out and…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 28 of Volume 2 22 all about a quarrel, great or small, the moment the fight is over, and they have shaken hands with their enemy in testimony of such compact. At the same time, I…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 29 of Volume 2 23 perfectly conscious that we know nothing about them. While, therefore, I may perhaps indulge myself in the expectation of being able to furnish some slight information to people on this side…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 30 of Volume 2 24 CHAPTER II. The hotel in which we found ourselves lodged at the Springs of Saratoga, was of great magnitude, as may be inferred from the size of the verandah or piazza…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 31 of Volume 2 25 uncomfortable little raw sorts of places, fourteen feet by ten, without a bit of paper or carpeting, and the glass of the windows was so thin it was apt to break…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
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Image 32 of Volume 2 26 to the average taste of the consumers. If producers go beyond this mark, they are never sure of finding any sale, certainly not a quick one:—and if they fall short of…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
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Image 33 of Volume 2 27 follows a totally different course. As there are no steady wealthy customers, so there are no steady superior tradesmen; and the grand object of the competitors comes to be, at all…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
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Image 34 of Volume 2 28 inst.” Accordingly, taking the hint, we resolved to move off, though we found the quietness of the Springs—now entirely deserted—very agreeable, after the turmoil and excitement we had recently been exposed…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 35 of Volume 2 29 Country, a republican form of government is not only made a condition of the compact, but is guaranteed to the different States by the united voice of the whole; each one,…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 36 of Volume 2 30 visited the Capitol with the truest wish to be well pleased with all I saw and heard. The hall of the House of Assembly was not unlike the interior of a…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 37 of Volume 2 31 be consistent with one another; after which, the result was printed and laid before the Legislature;—so that each chapter, section, and clause, might be discussed separately, when, of course, the members…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 38 of Volume 2 32 not only in the Constitution of the United States, but in that of the State of New York; and, finally, it was quite out of place in the Statute Book. This…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 39 of Volume 2 33 and ill-digested style imaginable. During, this excursion among the clouds, he referred frequently to the History of England, gave us an account of the manner in which Magna Charta was wrested…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 40 of Volume 2 34 attention of the House. He had been one of the committee, he said, appointed to revise the laws, and as such, had voted for the insertion of the particular clause, not…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Travels in North America, in the years 1827 and 1828.
Names
- Hall, Basil, 1788-1844.
Created / Published
- Edinburgh, Printed for Robert Cadell; London, Simpkin and Marshall, 1830.
Headings
- - United States--Description and travel
- - United States--History--1825-1829
- - Atlantic States--Description and travel
- - Canada--Description and travel
- - Canada--History--1791-1841
Medium
- 3 v. fold. tab. (v. 3) 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E165 .H1711
Digital Id
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbtn.2739a
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbtn.2739b
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbtn.2739c
Library of Congress Control Number
- 14012739
OCLC Number
- 5016637
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- online text