Book/Printed Material Travels in North America, in the years 1827 and 1828. Volume 3
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Image 81 of Volume 3 75 front of the building, with his musket on his shoulder. “Bless me!” I exclaimed, “has your legislature a guard of honour?—that is something new.” “Oh, no, no!” cried my companion, “that…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 82 of Volume 3 76 his absence from home, he be found wandering from the proper line of his message, he is speedily taken up and corrected accordingly. I had many opportunities of investigating the slavery…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 83 of Volume 3 77 this great topic as boldly and fairly as possible, by giving due weight to all I should hear on both sides. In the end I hope I have done so; though…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 84 of Volume 3 78 on the banks of James's river, where I had a most agreeable and advantageous opportunity of seeing the arrangements on a well managed estate, the working of several coal-pits, and the…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 85 of Volume 3 79 space enough for a man to creep under them to trim the fires, kept constantly burning on the mud floor to dry the leaves. The next process is to pack it…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 86 of Volume 3 80 foggy a morning as ever interfered with the picturesque, and proceeded down James's river at a great rate. By and by, however, the sky cleared up, and the breeze having lulled…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 87 of Volume 3 81 been entirely prevented, even in that State where the value of these unequal divisions of property is certainly better known than any where else in the country. Unfortunately, this conviction is…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 88 of Volume 3 82 of spare room—enough to hold a smaller vessel if required. The width of the dock at top, is to be 86 feet. As the tide rises and falls only about 3…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 89 of Volume 3 83 play her part as becomes her. But as the greater number of your ships are small ones, of the old sort, the chances are more in favour of our meeting them;…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 90 of Volume 3 84 worry in which a ship of war, about to sail for a foreign station, is sure to be kept, day and night, till she starts—though her sailing be deferred for a…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 91 of Volume 3 85 is to mount 340 guns, and will require a garrison of 5000 men to defend it properly. I was told that it covers an area of sixty acres, the intention being…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 92 of Volume 3 86 and standing on the glacis, must first be destroyed by the fleet coming in, and even then, its ruins, supposing it to be effectually demolished, would still, I imagine, act as…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 93 of Volume 3 87 other side of the entrance, to Hampton Roads, a second battery was in progress. Originally there was nothing there to work upon, but a mud bank, called the Rip Raps Shoal,…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 94 of Volume 3 88 being, I believe, supernumeraries for other ships in the Mediterranean. I went over the decks, passed round the wings, through the store-rooms, and into all parts of the ship. Every thing…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 95 of Volume 3 89 upon the popularity of the war. If the quarrel were of such a nature as to include in its motives the passions of the country generally, the adequate funds might perhaps…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 96 of Volume 3 90 American navy, it would be utterly hopeless to convert them into real seamen. If success attended the first dash, its momentum might carry them on, and the reaction on the country,…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 97 of Volume 3 91 of the calculations of every man who goes afloat—from his infancy upwards—I cannot say. In the meantime, I have only to observe, that as the Americans are fully awake to the…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 98 of Volume 3 92 CHAPTER V. The garrison of Fortress Monroe, at the time of my visit, was about seven hundred strong, chiefly artillerymen and engineers, besides a considerable number of slaves, and other labourers.…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 99 of Volume 3 93 in number, each one of whom carried a heavy chain, which hung in a festoon between his legs, one end being riveted to the ankle, while the other trailed a twenty-four…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 100 of Volume 3 94 and which the abolition of the ancient system has forced into the American army, was less corporal in itself, or in any degree less degrading to the soldier's mind, than the…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 101 of Volume 3 95 worth any thing, must be severe, it would be regular, and we should understand it.” I may here remark, that it has not been proposed by the Americans to tamper in…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 102 of Volume 3 96 He is seldom possessed of any education, has hardly any principles to steady him, and knows nothing about self-control as a voluntary habit. The punishments, therefore, which are to restrain such…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 103 of Volume 3 97 measurement, and not such as, by protracting the sufferings of the offender, shall injure the health, either of the body or of the mind, but such as will send the offender…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 104 of Volume 3 98 It is the greatest of all mistakes to suppose that soldiers or sailors are not, in practice, aware of these commonplace truths. They certainly consider corporal punishment as painful—and what wholesome…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 105 of Volume 3 99 way which would be disgraceful for their officers or other gentlemen to tolerate for a moment amongst themselves, though perfectly proper and natural for the men. Their labours are those of…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 106 of Volume 3 100 and give an officer a sound drubbing for ungentlemanlike conduct, than merely to reprimand or dismiss, a private soldier or sailor when he got drunk. This is too manifest an absurdity…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 107 of Volume 3 101 found by experience to follow in the case of the ordinary discipline. The severest corporal punishments, even when administered in the solemn and deliberate manner usual on board a man-of-war, very…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 108 of Volume 3 102 to be singularly efficacious. In point of fact, however, this remedy does come in time; for when a ship—and I presume it is so with a regiment—is once brought into good…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 109 of Volume 3 103 he will be disposed to brood over the severity of the punishment, in order to encourage vindictive feelings towards his superiors, and hatred towards the duties of his profession; so that…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 110 of Volume 3 104 perhaps, but quite cheerfully, to whatever is technically or habitually established. They are almost always more harassed and teased, than obliged by any changes from ordinary custom to those methods of…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 111 of Volume 3 105 sume also that of regiments. So long as the established customs of the service are rigidly adhered to, all goes on smoothly, the men are contented and happy, chiefly because they…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 112 of Volume 3 106 punishment. Such a wild project was never even spoken of. So far from harbouring any notion of the kind, the ringleaders themselves, in every one of the ships, maintained their authority,…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 113 of Volume 3 107 so obvious, that every person in command ought to be circumscribed by responsibilities of the most distinct nature; and no officer should ever be allowed for one moment to escape the…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 114 of Volume 3 108 they can lessen the amount of human suffering by abolishing the system alluded to, and yet have fleets and armies in such a state of discipline as shall enable them to…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 115 of Volume 3 109 means slow to avail themselves, as the captain often discovers by return of post, in terms which prove to him that a goose-quill can sometimes cut much deeper than the cat-o'-nine-tails.…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 116 of Volume 3 110 It ought always to be recollected, however, that reckless as the character of soldiers and sailors generally is, they are yet keenly alive to the feeling of being observed; and there…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 117 of Volume 3 111 CHAPTER VI. On the 9th of February, 1898, I made an excursion to the Dismal Swamp, a singular marsh of great extent, lying a few miles to the southward and eastward…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 118 of Volume 3 112 to connect the waters which flow into the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, with those which fall into another great estuary called Albemarle Sound, in North Carolina. It is hoped by the…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 119 of Volume 3 113 in their eager haste to get back, dash into the very evil they had sought to avoid. For it seems that few, if any, of the Southern States where the yellow…- Contributor: Hall, Basil
- Date: 1830-01-01
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Image 120 of Volume 3 114 the carriage after them in spite of holes, into which the fore-wheels were dipped almost to the axletrees, making every part of the vehicle creak again. These sounds were echoed back…- 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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