America and Her Commentators. With a Critical Sketch of Travel in the United States

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Introduction 1 CHAPTER I. Early Discoverers and Explorers 13 CHAPTER II. FRENCH MISSIONARY EXPLORATION, Hennepin ; Menard ; AUouez ; Marquette ; Charlevoix ; Marest ; etc. ... 87 CHAPTER III. FRENCH TRAVELLERS AND WRITERS. Chastellux ; L'Abbe Robin ; Duche ; Brissot de Warville ; Crevecoeur ; La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt ; Volney ; Raynal 58 CHAPTER IV. FRENCH TRAVELLERS AND WRITERS — Continued. Rochambeau; Talleyrand; Segur; Chateaubriand; Michaux; Murat; Brillat-Savarin ; De Tocqueville ; De Beaumont ; Ampere ; Lafayette ; Fisch ; De Gasparin ; Officers ; Laboulaye, etc 110 CHAPTER Y. BRITISH TRAVELLERS AND WRITERS. Berkeley ; McSparran ; Mrs, Grant ; Burnaby ; Rogers ; Burke ; Douglass ; Henry ; Eddis ; Anbury ; Smythe 156 CHAPTER YI. BKITISH TRAVELLERS AND "WRITERS — Continued. PAGK Wansey; Cooper; Wilson; Davis; Ashe; Bristed; Kendall; Weld; Cobbett ; Campbell ; Byron ; Moore ; Mrs. Wakefield ; Hodgson ; Janson; Caswell; Holmes and others; Hall; Fearon; Fiddler; Lyell ; Featherstonaugh ; Combe ; Female Writers ; Dickens ; Faux ; Hamilton ; Parkinson ; Mrs. Trollope ; Grattan ; Lord Carlisle ; Anthony Trollope ; Prentice ; Stirling 193 CHAPTER YII. English Abuse op America 252 CHAPTER YIII. NORTHERN EUROPEAN WRITERS. Kalm ; Miss Bremer ; Gurowski, and others ; German Writers : Saxe- Weimar ; Yon Raumer ; Prince Maximilian Yon Wied ; Lieber Schultz. Other German Writers : Grund ; Ruppius ; Seatsfield Kohl; Talvi; Schaff 293 CHAPTER IX. ITALIAN TRAVELLERS. National Relations ; Yerrazzano ; Castiglione ; D'AUessandro ; Capobian- 00 ; Salvatore Abbate e Migliori ; Pisani 334 CHAPTER X. AMERICAN TRAVELLERS AND WRITERS. John and William Bartram ; Madame Knight ; Ledyard ; Carver ; Jefferson ; Imlay ; Dwight ; Coxe ; Ingersoll ; Walsh ; Paulding ; Flint ; Clinton ; Hall ; Tudor ; Wirt ; Cooper ; Hoffman ; Olmsted Bryant ; Government Explorations ; Washington ; Mrs. Kirkland ; Irving. American Illustrative Literature : Biography ; History Manuals ; Oratory ; Romance ; Poetry. Local Pictures : Everett, Hawthorne, Channing, etc 371 CHAPTER XL Conclusion 438 Index 451