New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. / By J.P. Brissot de Warville. ; Translated from the French. ; [Five lines from Tacitus]
- Title
- New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. / By J.P. Brissot de Warville. ; Translated from the French. ; [Five lines from Tacitus]
- Author
- Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793.
- Publication
- New-York: :: Printed by T. & J. Swords, for Berry & Rogers, booksellers and stationers, no. 35, Hanover-Square.--,
- 1792.--
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- Subject terms
- United States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
- Booksellers' advertisements -- New York (N.Y.).
- Advertisements -- Drugs.
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- Cite this Item
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"New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. / By J.P. Brissot de Warville. ; Translated from the French. ; [Five lines from Tacitus]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N18607.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR.
- PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR.
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NEW TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA .- LETTER I. From M, CLAVIERE to M. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE.
- LETTER II. On the Soil, Productions, Cultivation, &c.
- LETTER III. Plan of a Colony to be established in America.
- LETTER IV.
- LETTER V.
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LETTER VI. Method of Observations for my Travels in America.
- Federal Government.
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Observations of my Friend
Claviere . - Government of each State.
- Legislation, Civil, Criminal, Police.
- State of the Commerce between each State▪ and the Sa|vages, the Canadians, Nova-Scotia, the English Islands, France, Spain, Holland, Northern States of Europe, Mexico, China, India, Africa.
- Banks.
- Federal Revenue of each State—Taxes which they impose —Manner of collecting them—Effect of these Taxes.
- The Federal Debt of every State—Those of Individuals— Federal Expences of each State—Their Accountability.
- State of the Country near the great Towns—Interior Parts—Frontiers—Cultivation; its Expences and Pro|duce; clearing new Lands, what encourages or hinders it—Money circulating in the Country—Country Ma|nufactures.
- Private Morals in the Towns and in the Country.
- Inequalities of Fortune.
- LETTER I. From M. DE WARVILLE.
- LETTER II.
- LETTER III. Journey from Boston to New-York, by land.
- LETTER IV. Journey from Boston to New-York, by Providence.
- LETTER V. On NEW-YORK.
- LETTER VI. Journey from New-York to Philadelphia.
- LETTER VII. Journey to Burlington.
- LETTER VIII.
- LETTER IX. Visit from the good Warner Mifflin.
- LETTER X. The Funeral of a Quaker—A Quaker Meeting.
- LETTER XI. Visit to a Bettering-House, or House of Correction.
- LETTER XII. HOSPITAL for LUNATICS.
- LETTER XIII. On BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
- LETTER XIV. Steam boat—Reflections on the Character of the Ameri|cans, and the English.
- LETTER XV. The Society of Agriculture—The Library.
- LETTER XVI. On the Market of Philadelphia.
- LETTER XVII. General Assembly of Pennsylvania—A Farm owned by a Frenchman.
- LETTER XVIII. Journey of two Frenchmen to the Ohio.
- LETTER XIX. On the School for the Blacks at Philadelphia, and the principal American Authors who have written in their favour.
- LETTER XX. The means used to abolish the Slave Trade, and Slavery in the United States.
- LETTER XXI. Laws of the different States for the Manumission of Slaves.
- LETTER XXII. On the general State, Manners and Character of the Blacks in the United States.
- LETTER XXIII. On replacing the Sugar of the Cane by the Sugar of Maple.
- LETTER XXIV. On a Plan for the Re-emigration of the Blacks of the United States to Africa.
- LETTER XXV. On Philadelphia, its buildings, police, &c.
- LETTER XXVI. Progress of Cultivation in Pennsylvania.
- LETTER XXVII. Climate and Diseases of Pennsylvania.
- LETTER XXVIII. Diseases the most common in the United States.—Longevity.
- LETTER XXIX. Longevity and Calculations on the Probabilities of Life in the United States.
- LETTER XXX. The Prison of Philadelphia, and Prisons in general.
- LETTER XXXI. The Quakers. Their private Morals, their Manners, &c.
- LETTER XXXII. On the Reproaches made against the Quakers by different Writers.
- LETTER XXXIII. The Extent of the Society of Quakers, their religious Principles, &c.
- LETTER XXXIV. The Refusal of Quakers to take any part in War.
- LETTER XXXV. Journey to Mount Vernon, in Virginia.
- LETTER XXXVI. General Observations on Maryland and Virginia.
- LETTER XXXVII. The Tobacco of Virginia, and the Tobacco Notes.
- LETTER XXXVIII. The Valley of Shenadore in Virginia.
- LETTER XXXIX. Journey from Boston to Portsmouth.
- LETTER XL. Debt of the United States.
- LETTER XLI. Importations into the United States.
- LETTER XLII. Exportations and Manufactures.
- LETTER XLIII. American Trade to the East-Indies.
- LETTER XLIV. The Western Territory.
- CONTENTS.
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