Travels in North America, From Modern Writers

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William Bingley. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers

First Day's Instruction. NORTH AMERICA

Second Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Third Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES, and PART OF CANADA

Fourth Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Fifth Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Sixth Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Seventh Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Eighth Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Ninth Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Tenth Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Eleventh Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Twelfth Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Thirteenth Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Fourteen Day's Instruction. UNITED STATES CONTINUED

Fifteenth Day's Instruction. WESTERN TERRITORY OF AMERICA

Sixteenth Day's Instruction. WESTERN TERRITORY CONTINUED

Seventeenth Day's Instruction. WESTERN TERRITORY CONTINUED

Eighteenth Day's Instruction. WESTERN TERRITORY CONCLUDED

Nineteenth Day's Instruction. MEXICO or NEW SPAIN

Twentieth Day's Instruction. MEXICO CONTINUED

Twenty-first Day's Instruction. MEXICO CONCLUDED

Twenty-second Day's Instruction. BRITISH AMERICAN DOMINIONS

Twenty-third Day's Instruction. NORTH WESTERN TERRITORY

Twenty-fourth Day's Instruction. NORTH-WESTERN TERRITORY CONCLUDED

Twenty-fifth Day's Instruction. DAVIS'S STRAIT AND BAFFIN'S BAY

Twenty-sixth Day's Instruction. DAVIS'S STRAIT AND BAFFIN'S BAY CONCLUDED

Twenty-seventh Day's Instruction. LABRADOR AND GREENLAND

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Mr. Fearon was deputed by several friends in England, to visit the United States, for the purpose of obtaining information, by which they should regulate their conduct, in emigrating from their native country, to settle in America. He arrived in the bay of New York, about the beginning of August, 1817.

Here every object was interesting to him. The pilot brought on board the ship the newspapers of the morning. In these, many of the advertisements had, to Mr. Fearon, the character of singularity. One of them, announcing a play, terminated thus: "gentlemen are informed that no smoking is allowed in the theatre." Several sailing boats passed, with respectable persons in them, many of whom wore enormously large straw hats, turned up behind. At one o'clock, the vessel was anchored close to the city; and a great number of persons were collected on the wharf to witness her arrival. Many of these belonged to the labouring class; others were of the mercantile and genteeler orders. Large straw hats prevailed, and trowsers were universal. The general costume of these persons was inferior to that of men in the same rank of life in England: their whole appearance was loose, slovenly, careless, and not remarkable for cleanliness. The wholesale stores, which front the river, had not the most attractive appearance imaginable. The carts were long and narrow, and each was drawn by one horse. The hackney-coaches were open at the sides, an arrangement well suited to this warm climate; and the charge was about one fourth higher than in London.

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The traveller, halting on the verge of these aboriginal shades, is inclined to pause in thought, and to consider the interesting scenes through which he has been passing. They are such as reason must admire, for they are the result of industry, temperance, and freedom. Five or ten, or, at the utmost, twenty years before Mr. Hall was in America, where there are now corn-fields, towns, and villages, the whole country was one mass of forest.

Notwithstanding the bad state of the roads, the stage-waggon runs from Rochester to Lewistown in two days. This journey is so heavy, that it is sometimes necessary to alight, and walk several miles, or to suffer almost a dislocation of limbs, in jolting over causeys or logged roads, formed of pine, or oak-trees, laid crossways. At different intervals, square patches seem cut out of the forest, in the centre of which low log-huts have been constructed, without the aid of saw or plane; and are surrounded by stumps of trees, black with the fires kindled for the purpose of clearing the land.

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