IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
[Illustration: GROUP OF INDIANS NEAR NIAGARA. Drawn & Etched by A. Hervieu.]
IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA,
DURING THE YEARS 1833, 1834, AND 1835.
BY TYRONE POWER, ESQ.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty.
1836.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
Page NAHANT 1 THE BALLOON 10 Taunton.--Cotton Manufactures.--Pocassett.--Rhode Island._ib._ NEWPORT 22 Rhode Island _ib._ BLOCK ISLAND 28 NEW YORK 32 Rockaway.--A Road Adventure. _ib._ JOURNAL 40 IMPRESSIONS OF PETERSBURG 82 Virginia _ib._ A Rhapsody 83 Impressions of Petersburg.--The deserted Church. 87 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 93 Total Eclipse of the Sun 102 SAVANNAH 117 COLUMBUS 132 TRAVELLING THROUGH THE CREEK NATION 140 The Alabama River down to Mobile _ib._ JOURNAL 162 NEW ORLEANS 171 American Theatre _ib._ French Theatre 175 NEW ORLEANS 178 Journal _ib._ The Theatre 189 Journal 192 MOBILE 211 NEW ORLEANS 227 THE LEVEE MARKET 247 JOURNAL RESUMED 252 NEW YORK 278 JOURNAL 291 A visit to Quebec, _via_ Lake Champlan and Montreal _ib._ The Sault au Recollect 305 GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE COUNTRY AND OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 339 Adieu 354 APPENDIX 357
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Impressions of America by Tyrone Power
- 2: The head of Nahant is likely to remain un be rhymed
- 3: That for his hard heart Is tar ed and feather ed
- 4: And for the last time drove over the beach to Lynn
- 5: Durant preserved the most admirable coolness
- 6: Durant high over the vessel's mast
- 7: Since the corps only bore l'arme blanche
- 8: Pulling up at Newport by two o'clock
- 9: Than the dockyard and depot which they seek to establish
- 10: And the dinner table at the Pottery is well served enough
- 11: Our voyage back was quickly accomplished
- 12: R d and his lady to Rockaway
- 13: And I considered myself at Bordenton
- 14: If you want to fetch Bordenton
- 15: Gangway to gangway warps were immediately passed
- 16: I was on the look out as we touched the wharf
- 17: I observed he rode with a martingale
- 18: An old hound hit the right scent
- 19: Allusions which called forth loud laughter from all present
- 20: During this visit to Baltimore
- 21: Shark again ran under great disadvantages
- 22: Up came the duck ahead of its pursuers
- 23: An hour's ride brought us within his domain
- 24: These hounds in woodland appear anything but slow
- 25: I have rarely met a tolerable steak
- 26: We reached Norfolk at eight o'clock A
- 27: Their chain was literally hidden under wreaths of roses
- 28: Dreaming confusedly of Captain Smith
- 29: Whilst the roused deer springs trembling
- 30: Surrounded by a large grave yard
- 31: And that we were at some Charleston
- 32: After once the malaria is fairly in movement
- 33: Estates became subject to division and subdivision
- 34: Wherein the idle man finds neither sympathies
- 35: As the great luminary became slowly covered
- 36: Into which we stowed the ladies
- 37: Taken on board an old apprentice of the pilot's
- 38: You have a square mainsail in the craft
- 39: Matthew had by this become quite sober
- 40: We were safely landed at Augusta
- 41: Or the waggons are fairly stalled
- 42: And submitted to without a murmur at Sparta
- 43: Nullification was the subject for the morning
- 44: The river dividing Alabama from Georgia
- 45: Within the log huts sat the squaws of the party
- 46: Affrays ending in blood are said to be frequent
- 47: Our driver was a lively intelligent young fellow
- 48: An improvidence of character peculiar to the natives
- 49: Do you calculate that we shall be caught in a hurricane
- 50: And consequent added discomfort
- 51: At Montgomery we found a wretched inn
- 52: The bale bounces off in its passage
- 53: H n asked him if he was Choctaw
- 54: Although assailed in every quarter
- 55: With the exception of a couple of creole French gentlemen
- 56: But at most can only apply to the parquette
- 57: It is to this house the creole families chiefly resort
- 58: Or circumscription of privilege
- 59: At Baton Rouge a military post of the United States' army
- 60: And landed ankle deep in choice mud
- 61: Either of leather or of the like selvage
- 62: They walked leisurely into the theatre
- 63: Walked down to Natchy under hill
- 64: Pelham is a handsome little chestnut
- 65: On one hand lay the town of Natchez
- 66: This being my last day in Natchez
- 67: When the Mississippi theatre reaches New Orleans
- 68: Not only of North Alabama and the Tennessee valley
- 69: And I have conversed with many planters
- 70: Not so the planters of this south western region
- 71: Begged the Singletons not to fire
- 72: For he had an illegant turkey
- 73: Along the whole extent of this line situated below the Levee
- 74: Lie numberless steamboats of all sizes
- 75: An occasional frolic or debauch
- 76: Together with an admixture yet more opposed
- 77: And the mortality amongst them is enormous
- 78: The usual number of riots and disputes
- 79: Followed by a half naked slave
- 80: Since up the Mississippi I won't steam again
- 81: But don't like to cut my Shakspeare
- 82: And found the Shakspeare already linked to her fiery mate
- 83: With this mighty conflagration for an hour or more
- 84: Tugged along by a powerful steamer
- 85: Just clearing the bowsprit of the Coromandel
- 86: Had quitted his pleasant possessions in Jersey
- 87: And doubtless the criminal calf must die the death
- 88: The Shakspeare proves worthy the name
- 89: And other master spirits amongst men
- 90: A couple of gallery pictures worthy a place in the Pitti
- 91: The volunteer corps were all turned out on this occasion
- 92: After illness or prolonged absence too
- 93: Getting us to Whitehall by ten P
- 94: Where the calm lake was shadowed by steep mountains
- 95: Lawrence to the Mississippi thus girdling
- 96: And saw the sunbeams dancing down the passing rapid
- 97: Under the inspection of my friend Mister Dolan
- 98: Sometimes laden with fine shad
- 99: If the raft goes down unbroken
- 100: These bateaux were shaded with the branches of trees
- 101: By their predecessors in exile
- 102: Took coffee with Doyle in a chamber
- 103: Rising irregularly tier over tier
- 104: We were some thirty miles distant from Montreal
- 105: And a petter and older language
- 106: Or Bruce to ha' bin Hielanders
- 107: And who possess negroes who only know Gaelic
- 108: And took the middle line to Albany
- 109: Wherein the writer found occasion to notice railroads
- 110: Between New York and Philadelphia
- 111: Without encountering suspicion
- 112: They are found transmitting their earnings to some mother
- 113: Bud it's only for a month you'll be havin' cowld here
- 114: Written on board Packet Ship Algonquin
- 115: And amicable relations established
- 116: Immediately after the last session of Congress
- 117: They took up their march to Fort Gibson
- 118: Here Colonel Dodge held a council with the Camanches
- 119: The question of emigration finds them still divided
- 120: Shawanees west of Methodist Episcl
- 121: Books in the languages of the Cherokees
- 122: And to be inserted in the licence
- 123: Such person shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars
- 124: At the next payment of the annuity
- 125: And if any superintendent of Indian affairs
- 126: Annexed to the Territory of Arkansas
- 127: Eighteen hundred and twenty six
- 128: To discontinue any Indian agency
- 129: Competent to direct the employment of their blacksmiths
- 130: Payable after making of such treaty
- 131: Regulations concerning the payment of Indian Annuities
- 132: When it becomes necessary to pay annuities
- 133: At the next period of paying the annuity
- 134: While attending any annuity payment
- 135: The annuity due to the tribe be ten thousand dollars
- 136: South of the agencies of Michilimackinac and St
- 137: This agency includes the Choctaws and their country