Travels Through the United States of North America: The Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, Հատոր 2

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Էջ 386 - here and there, or in clumps, to plant bufhes in front of them, and arrange the trees according to their height. Dr. Drayton's father, who was alfo a phyfician, began to lay out the garden on this, principle; and his fon, who is paffionately fond of a country life, has purfued the fame plan. The
Էջ 386 - until it reaches this point, forms here a wide, beautiful canal, pointing ftraight to the houfe. The garden is beautiful, but kept in the fame manner as the houfe ; the foil is very bad, and, in my opinion, the whole plantation is altogether undeferving the celebrity it enjoys. We
Էջ 340 - than thofe of Philadelphia. From the hour of four in the afternoon, they rarely think of aught but pleafure and amufement. The manners and habits of fociety are nearly the fame in Charlefton as in other parts of the American States. Frequent dinners, frequent parties for tea-drinking. There are two gaming-houfes, and both are
Էջ 252 - the trade. Nearly twenty fhips from the harbours of the United States are employed in the importation of negroes to Georgia, and to the WeftIndia ifles. I am furprifed, that, while there is fo
Էջ 384 - lately purchafed by Mr. Pringle, the. former name of which was Greenville, but which he has named Sufan's Place, in honour of his lovely wife. This plantation is likewife without a houfe, that of the former occupier having been confumed by fire; on the foundation of this building, which remains unhurt, the new manfion is to be
Էջ 458 - for me, without emotion, to contemplate, that we have been called upon to execute the moft important truft that can be delegated by the King and Britifh Parliament, during a period of awful and ftupendous events, which ftill agitate the greater part of mankind, and which have threatened to involve all that is valuable in civil fociety in one promifcuous
Էջ 30 - General Gates, and near which the American army was drawn up, to fee their difarmed enemies pafs by. His eftate includes all the tract of ground, •on which both armies were encamped, and he knows, as it were, their every ftep. How happy muft an American feel in the
Էջ 461 - with reverence, and humble acknowledgement, the remembrance, that it is my fingular happinefs to have borne to this province the powers, the privileges, the principles, and the practice of the Britifh conftitution ; this perpetual monument of the good-will of the empire, the reward of tried affection and loyalty, can
Էջ 331 - him no more regard than if he had been one of the negroes; though he be, next after the Prefident, the firft perfon in the United States, or perhaps, indeed, the very firft. Difrefpect: to their feniors and to perfons in public office, feems to be ftrongly affected among the Americans; fuch at leaft is the humour of
Էջ 28 - by divifions on a commanding height, communicating with the eminence on which General Burgoyne was encamped. The right wing of the German corps had a communication with the left wing of the Englifh, and the left extended towards the river. General GATES was encamped on the other

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