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Isabella Strange Trotter. First Impressions of the New World
First Impressions of the New World
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TO. I. L. T
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
OF
THE NEW WORLD
LETTER I
FOOTNOTE:
LETTER II
LETTER III
"SEKWARIHTHICH-DEA WM. CHEW,
GRAND SACHEM OF THE TUSCARRARA NATION OF INDIANS, Who died Dec. 16, 1857,
FOOTNOTES:
LETTER IV
LETTER V
FOOTNOTES:
LETTER VI
LETTER VII
FOOTNOTE:
LETTER VIII
FOOTNOTE:
LETTER IX
FOOTNOTES:
LETTER X
FOOTNOTES:
LETTER XI
LETTER XII
FOOTNOTE:
LETTER XIII
UNION PRAYER MEETING DAILY IN THIS CHURCH, FROM TWELVE TO ONE O'CLOCK
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THE END
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DOMENECH'S MISSIONARY TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Just published, in One Volume, 8vo. with Map, price 10s. 6d. cloth, MISSIONARY ADVENTURES
IN. TEXAS AND MEXICO:
A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF SIX YEARS' SOJOURN IN THOSE REGIONS. By the Abbé DOMENECH. Translated from the French under the author's superintendence. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
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Isabella Strange Trotter
On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858
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We went to the chapel on Sunday the 5th, where we joined, for the first time, in the service in America. It differs but little from our own, and was followed by a not very striking sermon. The Holy Communion was afterwards administered, and it was a comfort to us to join in it on this our first Sunday in America. The cadets filled the centre of the chapel, and are a very good-looking set of youths, wearing a pretty uniform, the jacket being pale grey with large silver buttons. We dined at four o'clock at the table d'hôte, in a room capable of holding about four hundred. We sat next to the landlord, who carved at one of the long tables. The dinner was remarkably well cooked in the French style, but most deficient in quantity, and we rose from table nearly as hungry as we sat down. Some of the ladies appeared at dinner in evening dresses, with short sleeves (made very short) and low bodies, a tulle pelerine being stretched tight over their bare necks. In some cases the hair was dressed with large ornamental pins and artificial flowers, as for an evening party. We met them out walking later in the evening, with light shawls or visites on their shoulders, no bonnets, and large fans in their hands. This toilette was fully accounted for by the heat, the thermometer being at 80° in the shade. Many of the younger women were very pretty, and pleasing in their manners.
We left West Point early on Monday morning, the 6th, taking the steamboat back to New York, leaving William to pursue his journey to the White Mountains and Montreal alone, and we are to meet him again at Boston next week. The steamboat was well worth seeing, being a wonderful floating house or palace, three stories high, almost consisting of two or three large saloons, much gilt and decorated, and hung with prints and filled with passengers. The machinery rises in the centre of the vessel, as high nearly as the funnel. We went at the rate of twenty miles an hour. We again enjoyed the beauties of the river, and could this time see both sides, which we were unable to do on the railway, by which means too we saw many pretty towns and villas which we had missed on Saturday. We were back at the hotel by twelve o'clock, and are to make our next move to-morrow afternoon to Newport, a sea-bathing place, a little way north of this. We are doing this at the strong recommendation of Lord Napier, who says, at this time of the year Newport is worth seeing, as giving a better idea of an American watering-place than Saratoga, where the season is now drawing to a close.
