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Scenery among the Cordilleras

- Brazilian Scenery, Negro Misery, &c.

BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES.

Mount Vernon, Seat of the late President

Washington

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Washington Capitol
Cathedral of Mexico

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BRIDGES.

Bridge of Cohoes, Potomac Bridge, Haverhill
Bridge, Wire Bridge near Philadelphia,
Bridge over Charles River

Bujuco Bridges

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213 to 215

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PART III-CHAP. IV.

AMERICAN VARIETIES.

Prevailing Religions, Singular Customs, Rare Pheno-
mena of Nature, Remarkable Events, Mechanical In-
veations, Extraordinary Men, Women, &c.

Prevailing Religions in America.
RELIGION of the Indians of North America

Ancient Religion of the South American Indians
Present Prevailing Religions of the United

States, Congregationalists, Presbyterians,
Episcopalians, Quakers, Methodists, Bap-
tists, Lutherans, Dutch Church, Roman
Catholics, Moravians, Universalists, Sha-
kers, Tunkers, Sandemanians, Mennon-
ists, Observations, &c.

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219 to 229

North American Endian Customs.
General Customs of Husband and Wife, Con-
duct to each other, to Strangers, Indian
Games, &c.

Indian War Dance

Indian Anger, Revenge, and Eloquence exem-
plified in an interesting Narrative
Indian Revenge, extraordinary Anecdote of

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Extraordinary Men and Women, chiefly
of American Birth.

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Benjamin West, Esq.

William Beadle, Extraordinary Opinions of,
Murder of his Wife and Children, Remarks
on the Credulity of Sceptics, entertain-
ing Anecdote of, in proof, Conversion of a
Deist by a remarkable Providence
Skenandon, the Oneida Chief

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INSTANCES OF EXTRAORDINARY

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PERSONAL

BEAUTY.

Princess Pocahontas

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INDIVIDUALS OF GIGANTIC STATURE.

The Patagonians, Mr. Clarke's description of
Dr. Robertson's observations respecting

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Mr James Henry Lambirth

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INSTANCES OF HUMAN LONGEVITY IN AMERICA.

The old Indian Chief

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Six remarkable Instances from Dwight's Travels
Two Ditto from Humboldt's Ditto

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Old Yaro, Several Instances of Longevity from

Warden's United States

CONCLUDING HINTS AND OBSERVATIONS, Future
Greatness of North America, Waterfall of
Tuccoa, Stupendous Precipice in South
Carolina, Languages of America, Learn-
ing, Serpents, Boa Constrictor, Enormous
Centipeds, Present State of South Anie-
rica, Course of Light, &c.

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