Book/Printed Material Letters from North America, written during a tour in the United States and Canada. Volume 1
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Image 1 of Volume 1 PLATE II. ANCIENT PARALLEL WALLS, supposed to have been erected for a Place of Amusement. Copied from an Engraving in the Archæological Americana. George Smith Printer.- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
- Date: 1824-01-01
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Image 3 of Volume 1 LETTERS FROM NORTH AMERICA, WRITTEN During a Tour IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 49–21 BY ADAM HODGSON. Bolton IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LC LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CITY OF WASHINGTON LONDON:…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 4 of Volume 1 LIVERPOOL: PRINTED BY GEORGE SMITH, FRENCH'S-BUILDINGS, Tithebarn-street. E165 H691- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 5 of Volume 1 ERRATA TO VOL. I. Page 28, line 4, for unversal, read universal. 40, line 9, for magniola, read magnolia. 45, line 28, for gangs, read gang. 68, line 6, for sate, read…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 6 of Volume 1- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 7 of Volume 1 634 45 TO The Memory OF THE LATE HONBLE WILLIAM LOWNDES, MEMBER OF CONGRESS FOR SOUTH CAROLINA, THE FOLLOWING VOLUMES ARE RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 8 of Volume 1- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 9 of Volume 1 PREFACE. Having been for some years extensively engaged in the American Trade, I visited the United States with commercial views, at the close of 1819, and remained sixteen months on the other…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 10 of Volume 1 iv in the course of my Tour, I communicated my impressions, from time to time, to the different members of my domestic circle, in all the confidence and careless freedom of unreserved…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 11 of Volume 1 v to prevail in Great Britain; and might possibly tend, in some degree, to induce a better tone of feeling between the two countries, led me, at a later period, to transmit…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 12 of Volume 1 vi not be exhibited to the public, consistently with that delicate regard to private feeling which I was most solicitous to observe. Early in the present year, however, I found that those…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 13 of Volume 1 vii I immediately began to revise them, amidst numerous interruptions of the little leisure which I could command, (leisure much curtailed by long and unavoidable absence from home,) and I have added…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 14 of Volume 1 vii intense interest, the magnificent scenery of the Western World, my attention was directed rather to the study of man than of nature; and especially to the manners, customs, and institutions of…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 15 of Volume 1 ix whatever of a literary nature,) shall contribute, in the slightest degree, to dissipate error and prejudice; to cherish those more liberal and friendly feelings, which are at length beginning to subsist…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 16 of Volume 1- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 17 of Volume 1 CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE FIRST. LETTER I. Voyage—Passengers—Occupations at sea—Arrival at New York 1–6 LETTER II. Washington—Visit to the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary at War—Drawing-room at the…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 18 of Volume 1 xii LETTER IV. Visit to a Rice Plantation—Negroes—Live Oaks—Society of Charleston—Habits of the Carolinian Planters—Yellow Fever—Sale of Slaves 43–48 LETTER V. Society at Washington—British Chargé d'Affaires—Party at Mr. L—'s—Mr. and Mrs. Monroe—Mr.…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 19 of Volume 1 xiii LETTER X. Scenery near Natchez—Harper's Ferry—Opelousas—Attacapas—Trees—Rivers 169–183 LETTER XI. Society in the vicinity of Natchez—Slavery—Cultivation of Cotton—Peculiarities attending Slave-cultivation 184–210 LETTER XII. Visit to a Plantation—Deer hunt—Departure from Natchez—Choctaw Indians—Mourning for…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 20 of Volume 1 xiv LETTER XVI. Cherokee Indians in the State of Georgia—Racoon and Lookout Mountains—Missionary Settlement at Brainerd—Reflections on the Past History and Future Prospects of the Indians—Kingston—Confluence of the Holstein and Clinch Rivers.…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 21 of Volume 1 xv Geneva—Canandaigua—Rapid Settlement of that Part of the State of New York—Buffalo—Lake Erie—Niagara—Character of Mr. Lowndes—York, in Upper Canada—Niagara Fort—Lake Ontario 329–359 LETTER XXII. Genessee River—Rochester—Carthage Bridge—Sacket's Harbour—Lake of the Thousand Isles—Ogdensburgh—Sail…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 22 of Volume 1- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 23 of Volume 1 1 LETTERS, &.c. Letter I. New York, 3d November, 1819. I wrote a few lines last night by a vessel for Ireland, which will probably have reached you before this, to mention…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 24 of Volume 1 2 My spirits began to fail me when I parted with—;and when I got up in the middle of the first night to walk the deck, and take another view of the…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 25 of Volume 1 3 degree of satisfaction which you will not readily conceive. The Bank, which lies perhaps 50 miles to the south of the island, is about 380 miles long, and 75 or 80…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 26 of Volume 1 4 with an excellent view of the whales and grampuses which frequent those seas. The former were said to be 50 to 60 feet long, and came close to the vessel, following…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 27 of Volume 1 5 of our voyage, a difference of four or five hours in the time of our meridian and yours, led us to fancy our English friends as retiring to bed as we…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 28 of Volume 1 6 describe this magnificent harbour, nor our sensations on finding ourselves really in the New World, blessed once more with the sight of the abodes of men, of trees which still retained…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 29 of Volume 1 7 Letter II. Washington, 24th January, 1820. My letters from New York and Philadelphia will have given you a general idea how I have been passing my time, and will have conveyed…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 30 of Volume 1 8 Potowmac, and suitable for the chief magistrate of a powerful republic. We passed through a spacious saloon into the drawing-room, where we had some difficulty in making our way to Mrs.…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 31 of Volume 1 9 departments of government. All this, you will readily believe, gives rise to much dissipation. On some of the evenings, there are routs at the houses of one or other of the…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 32 of Volume 1 10 St. Louis, on the Missouri, is by some supposed to be destined to be the future capital, as it will probably be almost the centre of those states which may be…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 33 of Volume 1 11 dignity of the deliberative assemblies which occupy them, and the general appearance of the members does not materially impair it. Many of them have the appearance of English country gentlemen, and…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 34 of Volume 1 12 discussion. He regards the frequent change of members in the House of Representatives as inimical to the acquisition of that knowledge, or the formation of those habits so desirable in a…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 35 of Volume 1 13 by the British. I never could admit the pleas urged in justification of our proceedings at Washington. It would have been much more magnanimous to have been satisfied with marking the…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 36 of Volume 1 14 of forest park. We approached the house by a winding ascent through natural plantations of oak and cedar; and on sending in my letter to Judge Washington, I was shown into…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 37 of Volume 1 15 you may throw a stone from the front door, is here very broad, and you may trace its windings for many miles. When the British ships of war passed Mount Vernon,…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 38 of Volume 1 16 he seems to regard it, is as an instrument in the conversion of the Africans to Christianity, which he conceives will ultimately be effected most completely by native preachers; and he…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 39 of Volume 1 17 that they believe the object of the Society to be the perpetuation of slavery. This is not the only misconception they entertain of its views; some of them think it is…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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Image 40 of Volume 1 18 Letter III. Charleston, South Carolina, Feb. 19th, 1820. The celebrated Missouri question continued the great subject of discussion, both in and out of Congress, as long as I remained at Washington.…- Contributor: Hodgson, Adam
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About this Item
Title
- Letters from North America, written during a tour in the United States and Canada.
Names
- Hodgson, Adam.
Created / Published
- London, Printed for Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1824.
Headings
- - United States--Description and travel
- - Indians of North America
- - Canada--Description and travel
Notes
- - Reissue, in part, of the author's Remarks during a journey through North America. New York, 1823.
Medium
- 2 v. front., illus., fold. map. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E165 .H691
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 01026836
OCLC Number
- 689272
Online Format
- image
- online text