Travels Through the United States of North America Volume 4; The Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 Excerpt: ... City; and remarably sine kalmia latiflora, from twenty to five-and-twenty feet in height, between Federal-City and Baltimore. I also saw some of the latter near the Potapsko, whose bloom, of a beautiful pale red, was beginning to appear. The wood of the kalmia I have been told is used for the axle-trees of carts, for the handles of tools, and all other purposes for which wood of the hardest kind is preferred. END OF THE THIRD VOtUME. TO THE THIRD VOLUME. A. ABIXGDON, village of, 679; its college burnt down, ib.; supposed wilfully, 680. Accidents, account of one at Boston, 349, 350, 351; a conflagra-tion in the woods near Kingston, which lasted many days, 453. Agriculture, state of, in Norfulk-county, 24; in the county of Princess Ann, ib.; at Monticello, 147; at Keyssel-town, 185; at Charlestown in Virginia, 211; in Maryland, 243; in the township of Stonning-town, 271; near Haverhill, 394; in the State of Massachusetts, 405; betwen Gfray's ferry and Chester, 484; at Dr. Warton's farm, jn, 512; at Colonel Thylman.s, -568. Alexandria, environs of, 662, 663; its herring fishery, 664; the handsomest town in Virginia, ib.; ks situation, 665; houses, ib.; quays, ib.; trade,666; population, ib.; exports, ib.; bank,667; the only one in Virginia, ib.; account of its capital and dividend, ib. Alleghany-county, 241. America, inconveniences of public carriagesin, 58; remarks on the treaty with Grat Britaiu, 295, 296, 197; the bad state of its army regulations, 469, 470, 471. Americans, their civilities to travellrs in general, 31,32; their veneration for the French, 57, 130, 609; author's opinion of, 385; their inattention to objcts of great importance, 467, 47a-Ames, Mr. at Durham, character of, 492. Anabaptists raise a colony at Ehode-llland, 279; their persecu-t...