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CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
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CHAPTER I.
Passengers in the Aurora, bound to New Orleans.-Eti-
quette.-Savoury
quette. Savoury food. The Guitar.- Sunsets.-First view
of North America.-A Pilot.-Mouth of the great Mississippi.
-Dangers of the Bar.-An Alligator.-The Balize pilot station.
-Prospect of a sickly season.-Stem the current.—The last
Settler. A Night-watch.-Course of the Father of Waters.-
the Porpoise-tug. Plantations. New Orleans.- Melancholy
Streets. Hotel. The first night on shore. New Orleans.
Tonsor. The Markets. The Cathedral. A Duel.-
The Levee.-Yellow-fever Captains.-The battle of the Blacks.
-Evening resort.-The Gaol.-Morality and Religion.—Ame-
rican Preacher. Philosophical Lady.-Slave Insurrection.-
Regular Infantry.-The Barracks.-Visit the Battle-ground.-
Graves of the Slain.-Retrospection.--A song.--Visit a planta-
tion. A Murderer.-Negroes. Their treatment. Internal
Slave-trade. Kidnappers.-A disclosure.-England and Ame-
rica ought to cherish liberal and friendly feelings toward each
other.
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Detention in New Orleans.
Insalubrity of the Climate.
Great Mortality among Irish Labourers. Precautions against
Yellow Fever. Why New Orleans is called the Wet Grave.—
Sepulchres.-Gambling.-Population.-Commerce.-Waggon-
road from the Atlantic to the Pacific.-Duelling in the West-
ern States. A Monster at large. Contrast between the
Eastern and Western States.-Rival Undertakers.-A Hearse
recommended. Stores of ready-made Coffins. - Reasonable
Charges. Bals de Bouquet.-Another Hurricane.-The Texas
Territory.-Nature of Inquiries regarding it.-The Boundaries
and Area. Americans desirous of possessing it.-Americans
and Mexicans not on good terms.-Emigration.-Colonel Aus-
tin's and De Witt's Settlements.-Improper persons introduced
into Texas. Slaves.-Anticipated Conquest.-The Face of the
Country. Mountain Ranges.-Prairies.—Rivers. - The Cli-
mate. Timber. Mines. Productions.
Towns. Concluding remarks on Texas.
Government.
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CHAPTER III.
Leave New Orleans.-An Escape.-Passengers in the Union.
-Our Fare.--The Bar.-A Steamer.-Wooding Places on the
Mississippi.-The Forest.-A Sugar Estate described. Dif-
ference of Canes.-Annual Expenditure on a Sugar Estate.-
Plough Husbandry.-American Enterprize.-" Nuts" for the
Abolitionists. The last Parroquette.-The Deck Passengers
fond of "Corn."-The Encroachments of the Sea.-The old
Mouth of the Great River.-Yankee cunning.-The Clock
Pedlar. The Mississippi and Irrawaddy compared. - The
Squatters; their Betterments.-The Alligators.-River Robbers.
-Natchez.-The Upper and Lower Towns.-Passengers plun-
dered. The Voyage continued.-Navigation of the River.-
The Wooden Fork.-Dislikes of Backwoodsmen.-The Author
gets à Lesson.- River Corpses. Vixburgh.-Distress of a
Hotel Keeper. Three Snapping Turtles.-A Skirmish.—The
Prize-ring defended.-Broad Horns.-The Cut-off at Red River.
-The Inundation.-The Union is snagged and sinks.—Acci-
dents on the Mississippi.
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CHAPTER IV.
Memphis, in Tenessee.-The Hotel.-Discovery of an Emis-
sary. A Negro Preacher.-A Sleeping Apartment.-The In-
dians. Compulsory Emigration.-Destruction to the Red Hun-
ters.-Chateaubriand.-A group of Chickasaws.-Their encamp-
ment.-Indian Manners.-Seemingly, but not really indifferent
to their Wives. The worshippers of the Sun.-The Coronach,
or lament for their Dead.-Intercourse between the Pioneers and
Indians. Anecdote.-Leave Memphis for the interior.-The
Waggon. The Forest.-A Stand or Stage. Corn Bread.-
Black Jacks. Excitement. The Music of the Woods. · A
Cure for Affectation and Self-conceit.-The story of the Boot-
jack. Inquisitive Pioneer. Strange ideas. — Snakes. — The
Prairies.Indian Mounds.-Barrows.-The unknown Dead.-
The Grave of a Scottish-chief. The Mammoth Cave.- Real
Aborigines of America long ago exterminated. - Paintings on
Rocks. Salt Licks.-The Big Hatchet River.-A Lawyer.-
A Duel.-Hunting Parties.-Rifle Practice. -Barrens. -A
Hurricane. An Adulterer detected.-A Backwoods Sheriff.-
Paddling a Negro.-Migratory Farmers.-Arrive at Nash-
ville.
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CHAPTER V.
Nashville Hotel. A pleasant Change.-A Job.-A Tenessee
Supper. Reflections. Panorama. Indian Skirmishes.- A
Sulphur Spring. The Bridge. — The Legislature in Session.
-The Members.-Mr. Yeatman.-The Penitentiary. Prison
Discipline. Vauxhall Gardens. - Effect of a Visit to Canada.
-Emigrants ought to settle among their own People. — Leave
Nashville. - A facetious Driver.-The Americans not musical.
—Old Kentuck.—Delightful Climate.--Negroes en route.--Ri-
val Claims of Clay and Jackson.-An Opinion.-Religion in Ken-
tucky.-A Camp Meeting.-The Sink Hole.--A violent Quar-
rel.-A regular Snorter.-Female Foresters.-Pity the Rover's
Bride. A Jeremiad. - American Gold Mines.-Gold in Dust
and Gold in Mass.-Smelting.-Aborigines worked the Mines.
-Return of Gold for several Years. The Nullifiers.-Cut off
the Tail.-Arrive at Louisville; Falls of Ohio.-The Canal.-
Freedom of Election in the Back Settlements.-A Temptation
to enter into Holy Wedlock.-The Banks of Ohio.
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CHAPTER VI.
Cincinnati in Ohio.-Its rapid growth, compared with Colum-
bus.-The Author of "The Mississippi Valley."-Mrs. Trollope.
-Falling Trees.-Marrietta.-Land at Wheeling in Virginia.-
Its Coal. Its Fabriques. — Lament for Authors.
The Big
Grave. An American Beggar. - Tale of a Chair. -A Horse
Ferry. Virginian Landlord. - Fanatics.-The Golden Bible.
-Rapp's Settlement on the Ohio.—Mr. Birkbeck in Indiana.
-Wellsville.-A Scotch Colony.-Why was it located in the
States?Sergeant More M'Alpin.-The State of Ohio.-A
Stage. A Blacksmith's notions of England. - Good feeling on
the part of Fellow Travellers. Peach Plunderers. - Hungry
Wayfarers.-Lake Erie.-A Walk.-Land Speculators.-Town
of Erie. - Belgian Emigrants.-Fredonia.-Natural Gas.-A
Sermon.-Dunkirk. Sail to Buffaloe.-The great Erie Canal.
-Rail Roads. — The Niagara River. The Great Cataract.
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CHAPTER VII.
The last Days of Francis Abbott. His arrival at Niagara.
-Enraptured with the Falls.-Resides in Goat Island.-Builds