A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

The wailings of the Cherokee, the Choctaw, and the Creek, may have been wafted across the waters of the great salt lake, and the Pale-face in his own land may have heard their l...

Having spent a month in Orleans and the neighbouring plantations, I took my leave and departed for Louisville. The steam-boat in which I ascended the river was of the largest de...

Having remained about a fortnight at Harmony, we made the necessary arrangements, and, accompanied by B----, set out for St. Louis, in Missouri. We crossed the Wabash into Illin...

Having sojourned for more than three weeks at Philadelphia, I departed for New York. The impressions made on my mind during that time were highly favourable to the Philadelphian...

Having determined on quitting "the London of the States," as my friends the Yankees call New York, I had bag and baggage conveyed on board a steamer bound for Albany. The arrang...

The weather having become cold and disagreeable towards the latter end of December, I set out for New Orleans. The larger class of steam-boats lay then at Shippingsport, immedia...

I left Kentucky, and passed up the river to Wheeling, in Virginia. There is little worthy of observation encountered in a passage up this part of the Ohio, except the peculiar c...

From Little Sandusky, I passed through Marion, in Marion county. This town, like most others in Ohio, is advancing rapidly, and has at present several good brick buildings. The...

On our return to Illinois from Missouri, we visited the tumuli in the "American bottom," for the purpose of more closely investigating the form and disposition of these sepulchr...

Having decided on visiting New Harmony, in Indiana, where our friend B---- had been for some time enjoying the delights of sylvan life, and the refinements of backwoods-society,...

Following the plan I had laid down for myself, I sought and found a goodly Yankee merchantman, bound for and belonging to the city of New York. Our vessel was manned with a real...

Depart for Albany--the Hudson--Albany--Cohoe's Falls--Rome--the Little Falls--forest of charred trees--"stilly night" in a swamp--fire fly--Rochester--Falls of Gennessee--Sam. P...

Depart for St. Louis--Albion--the late Messrs. Birkbeck and Flowers--Hardgrove's prairie--the roads--the Grand prairie--prairie wolf--mode of training dogs--Elliott's inn--inhab...

Leave St. Louis--Indian mounds--remains of ancient fortifications--burial caverns--mummies--Flint's description of a mummy--the languages of America--town making--the Indian sum...

Depart for Louisville--tellandsea, or Spanish moss--Natchez--the yellow fever--cotton plantations--Mississippi wood-cutters--freshets--planters, sawyers, and snags--steam-boat b...

Set out for New Orleans--Louisville--Mississippi steam-boats--the Ohio--the Mississippi--sugar plantations--the valley of the Mississippi--New Orleans--Quadroons--slavery--a Met...

Arrive at Marion--divorces--woodlands--Columbus--land offices--population, &c. Shaking Quakers--kidnapping free Negros--Cincinnati--the farmers of Ohio--a corn-husking frolic--q...