"Originally published in1836"

Advertising matter: pages 395-402.

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Online version: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863. Domestic manners of the Americans. New York, H.W. Bell, 1904

Entrance of the Mississippi (Balize)

New Orleans (society, Creoles and Quadrooms), Voyage up the Mississippi

Company on board the steam boat (scenery on the Mississippi, crocadiles, arrival at Memphis, Nashoba)

Departure from Memphis, Ohio River, Louisville, Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Forest Farm, Mr. Bullock

Servants, society, evening parties

Market, museum, picture gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Drawing school, Phrenological society, Miss Wright;s lecture

Absence of public and private amusement, churches and chapels, influence of the Clergy, a revival

Schools, climate, water melons, Fourth of July, storms, pigs, moving houses, Mr. Flint, literature

Removed to the country, walk in the forest, equality

Religion

Peasantry compared to that of England, Early marriages, charity, Independence and equality, Cottage prayer-meeting

Theatre, fine arts, delivery, Shaking Quakers, Big Bone Lick, visit of the President

American spring, controversy between Messr's Owen and Campbell, public ball, separation of the sexes, American freedom, execution

Camp-Meeting

Danger of rural excursions, Sickness

Departure from Cincinnati, Society on board the steam-boat, Arrival at Wheeling, Bel esprit

Departure for the mountains in the stage, scenery of the Allegheny, Haggerstown

Baltimore (Catholic Cathedral, St. Mary's College, sermons, Infant School)

Voyage to Washington (Capitol, City of Washington, congress, indians, funeral of a member of Congress)

Stonington, Great Falls of the Potomac

Small landed proprietors, Slavery

Fruits and flowers of Maryland and Virginia, copper-head snake, insects, Elections

Washington Square, American beauty, Gallery of Fine Arts, Antiques, theatres, museum

Quakers, Presbyterians, itinerant Methodist preacher, Market, Influence of Females in society

Return to Stonington, thunder-storm, emigrants, illness, Alexandria

American cooking, evening parties, dress, sleighing, money-getting habits, tax-gatherer's notice, Indian summer, anecdote of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar

Literature, extracts, fine arts, education

Journey to New York, Delaware River, stage-coach, City of New York (Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, theatres, public garden, churches, Morris Canal, fashions, carriages)

Reception of Captain Basil Hall's Book in the United States

Journey to Niagara, Hudson, West Point, Hyde Park, Albany, Yankees, Trenton Falls, Rochester, Genesee Falls, Lockport

Niagara, Arrival at Forsythe's, first sight of the Falls, Goat Island, Rapids, Buffalo, Lake Erie, Cananadaigua, stage-coach adventures

Return to New York, Conclusion

Preface

Life of the author

Story of the book

Notes on the text

Some books on America by Europeans

Explanation of the Unit Books.

United States > Social life and customs > 1783-1865.

Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Company, printer.

United States New York (State) New York.