then Europe and England may learn that an instructed democracy is the surest foundation of government, and that education and freedom are the only sources of true greatness and true happiness among any people."
When the new scientific methods of historical writing are applied to the annals of our own country, some remarkable coincidences and a dramatic unity in the sequence of memorable events will illustrate the chronicle. To subdue the wilderness; to colonize with various nationalities a vast continent; to vindicate, by the ordeal of battle, the supremacy among them of the Anglo-Saxon element; to raise and purify this into political self-assertion, by establishing free institutions; under their auspicious influence to attain the greatest industrial development and territorial expansion; and, finally, in these latter days, to solve, by the terrible alternative of civil war, the vast and dark problem of slavery-this is the momentous series of circumstances whereby it has pleased God to educate this nation, and induce moral results fraught with the highest duties and hopes of humanity; and, deeply conscious thereof, we cannot but exclaim, with our national poet :
ABUSE of America, English, 252.
Addison, writings of, compared with those of Washington Irving, 288. Address of eminent Frenchmen to loyal | Americans, 154.
Addresses, commemorative, 421.
Adriani, Count, 340; Washington's opin- ion of his book, 340.
Adventure, spirit of Americans for, 434. Agassiz, on the priority of the formation of the American continent, 14. Albany, sketch of society at, by Mrs. Grant, 172; Peter Kalm's picture of, in 1749, 296.
Alessandro, Pietro d', 342; his letters from Boston, 343; visits Cambridge, 349; the Boston Athenæum, 351.
Allouez, Father Claude, narrative of, 44. Allston, Washington, on the affinity which should exist between the United States and England, 259. Alyaco, Petrus de, Imago Mundi," Washington Irving's remarks on, 23. America, similarity of, to Italy in furnish- ing subjects of interest to authors, 2; general sameness of writings of travels in, 4; European writers of travels in, each interested in a different theme, 4; toleration in, the source of its attraction to foreign exiles, 7; natural features also interest, 7; early discoverers and explorers of, 13; its natural features conduce to the spread of civilization, 15; its antiquities compared with those of the Old World, 16; conjectures in regard to the primitive inhabitants of America, 17; claimed by the Welsh to have been discovered by Madoc in 1170, 18; early pictorial representations of manners and customs of its inhabitants, | 23; the fifteenth and sixteenth centu- ries prolific in works on, 24 ; curious re- lics of annals of discovery in, 26; mis- cellaneous publications relating to, 33; English abuse of, 252; book collectors in, 317; deceptions practised upon trav- ellers in, 341; self-respect of its people, 441.
American travellers and writers, 371.
Ampère, J. J.," Promenade en Amérique," 142; notes carelessness of Americans, 143; versatility of his descriptions, 144. Anbury, Thomas, "Travels in the Inte- rior of America," 186; description of Cambridge, Mass., 187; notices the de- fective teeth of Americans, 188; regrets that he cannot visit Boston, 188; anx- iety to return to England, 188. Antiquities, American, compared with those of the Old World, 16.
Ashe, Thomas, 202; his travels in Amer- ica, 203; his peculiar opinions of Amer- icans, 204.
Athenæum, the Boston, described by Pie- tro d'Alessandro, 350.
ACKWOODSMEN, American, Tal- leyrand's opinion of, 114. Bancroft, George, visit of John G. Kohl to, at Newport, 324.
Barre, Col., on English of America before the Revolutionary war, 254. Bartlett, John R., "Dictionary of Amer- icanisms," 286; similarity between the provincialisms of New England and those of Great Britain, 286. Bartram, John, 372; his botanical labors, 372; his travels, 374; Peter Collinson's opinion of him, 374; his close observ. ance of nature, 376; description of Os- wego, 377; appointed botanist and nat.- uralist to the king of England, 378; ex- plores Florida, 379; his home life, 380. Bartram, William, 382; his study of na- ture, 384.
Beaumont, Gustave de, his "Marie," 139 women of America and France com- pared, 141.
Belknap, Dr., the foremost primitive lo- cal historian of America, 3; founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3; his description of the White Moun- tains, 3.
Beltrami, J. C., " Pilgrimage in Europe and America," 342. Benton, Thomas H., sketch of, 322. Berkeley, Bishop G., 156; obtains a char- ter for erecting a college in Bermuda,
157; his letters, 157; Walpole and, 158; lines of, 159; marries and embarks for America, 159; his friendship for Smi- bert the painter, 161; his sacrifices, 161; arrives at Newport, R. I., 162; religious condition of Rhode Island in 1714, 162; his reception at Newport, 163; letter describing the town, 164; is delighted with American scenery, 165; his muni- ficence to Yale College, 167; memorials of his residence in América, 169. Biography, American, 424, 432. Blackwood's Magazine, remarks of, on Harriet Martineau's book, 225; its ridi- cule of Yale College and New England- ers, 263.
Bonaparte, Joseph, resides in seclusion in New Jersey, 122.
Book collectors, American, 317. Books of travel, diversity of treatment of, 4. Boston, notes of Marquis de Chastellux
Bulow, M., visit of Brillat-Savarin to the family of, 127.
Burke, Edmund, "Account of the Euro- pean Settlements in America," 181. Burnaby, Rev. Andrew, 173; his descrip- tion of Virginians, 173; visits Philadel- phia, 174; New York, 174; opinion of Long Island, 175; visits Rhode Island, 175; opinion of its people, 175; his de- scription of Bishop Berkeley's residence at Newport, 176; visits Boston and Cambridge, 177; strict observance of the Sabbath in New England, 178; his opinions in regard to the American colonies, 179.
Byrd, William, expeditions of, described in the Westover Manuscripts, 32. Byron, 211; his apostrophe to America,
on, 74; described by L'Abbé Robin in CAMBRIDGE, Mass., described by Tho- mas Anbury, 187; Pietro d'Alessan- dro's visit to, 349.
1781, 76; its people, 77; commerce, 78; visit of Brissot de Warville to, 83; com- mercial intercourse of, in 1729, 166; John G. Kohl's impressions of, 313; book col- lectors of, 317; Luigi Castiglione's im- pressions of, 339; Pietro d'Alessandro's description of its people, 345. Botany, promoters of the science of, in America, 372. Botta, Carlo, 334.
Bradford, Governor, poetical description of New England, 33. Breckinridge, Dr., on the necessity of the maintenance of the American Union, 277. Bremer, Fredrika, her novels, 298; her reception in America, 298; her compari- sons of Swedish and American scene- ry, 299; her curiosity, 299. Bright, John, on the strength of, the United States Government, 449. Brillat-Savarin, "Physiologie du Gout," 125; wild-turkey shooting, 126; visit to the family of M. Bulow, 127. Brissot de Warville, 82; visits Boston, 83; journeys to New York, 84; Phila- delphia, 84; visits Washington at Mount Vernon, 85; Whittier's lines on, 86; his anti-slavery sympathies, 86; admiration of Americans, 87; sketch of New York city in 1788, 87; smoking in New York, 88. Bristed, Rev. John, 205; his "America
and her Resources," 205; opinion of Lon- don Quarterly Review on his work, 206. British authors, writings of, compared with those of America, 288. British colonists in America described by Charlevoix, 49.
British travellers and writers on America,
156; desirableness and feasibility of a compilation of their works, 215; miscel- laneous works of, on America, 218, 219, 220, 222, 224, 229.
Brown, Charles Brockden, translates Vol- ney's work on America, 97. Browning, Elizabeth, on British illiber- ality, 290.
Bryant, William Cullen, his "Letters of a Traveller," 418; his poems, 430.
Canonicut Island, Bishop Berkeley lands at, 162. ridiculous
Capobianco, Raffaelle, 358;
statements of his book, 359. Carli, Le Comte, "Lettres Americaines," Carlisle, Earl of, his lecture at Leeds on the United States, 231.
Carver, Capt. John, 387; his "Travels," 388.
Castiglione, Luigi, 338; his impressions of
Boston, 339; visit to Mount Vernon, 339. Catholic missionaries the pioneer writers of American travels, 37. Channing, William Ellery, 436; his influ- ence on free institutions in America, 437. Charlevoix, P. F. X., travels in Canada and the Northwest, 47; his letters, 49; account of New England and other British provinces, 49; description of the Missouri and Mississippi, 50; review of the scene of his labors, 51; his "His- toire de la Nouvelle France," 57. Chastellux, Marquis de, 58; a friend of Washington, 59; his "Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale,60;" romance of his style and comparisons, 60; opin- ions of his writings, 61; his "Travels " translated into English, 61; justness of his criticisms, 62; visits Providence, R. I., 63; Hartford, 64; sketch of Gov. Trumbull, 64; visits the Hudson High- lands, 65 interview with Washington and his officers, 65; visits Philadelphia, 66; Mrs. Bache, 66; Robert Morris, 66; social customs of Frenchmen and Qua- kers compared, 66; his description of Northern New York, 67; journey into Virginia, 68; describes Jefferson, 69 minuteness of his observation, 71; traits of different sections, 72; visits Ports- mouth, N. H., 73; attends a ball at Boston, and describes the "prettiest of the women dancers," 74; other Boston celebrities, 74; takes leave of Washing- ton at Newburgh, 74; his description of Washington, 75; translates Col. Hum-
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