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New Travels in the United States of the America, 1788

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1964

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    INTRODUCTION

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    PREFACE

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    TABLE OF CURRENCIES OF THE UNITED STATES, COMPARED WITH THOSE OF EUROPE

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    TABLE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF THE UNITED STATES

    27
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  • LETTERS FROM M. C LAVI ÈRE TO M. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE
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    I Plan for the Study of the Political, Civil, Military, and Legislative Systems of the Free Americans

    29
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    II Nature of the Soil, Agricultural Products, Immigration, etc.

    34
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    III Plan for a Colony to Be Established in America

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    IV [Sites for French Settlements]

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    V [Opportunities for Investments in Land]

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    VI The American Debt

    48
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    PLAN OF INVESTIGATION TO BE FOLLOWED DURING MY TRAVELS IN AMERICA

    52
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  • LETTERS OF J . P. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE
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    1 Le Havre

    61
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    2 The Commerce of Le Havre

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    3 The Voyage to America

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    4 Boston

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    5 Journey from Boston to New York

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    6 Journey from Boston to New York by Way of Providence

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    7 New York

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    8 Journey from New York to Philadelphia

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    9 Journey to Burlington and Visit to Mr. Temple Franklin

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    10 A Visit to a Quaker Farm

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    11 A Visit from the Good Warner Mifflin

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    12 A Quaker Funeral and a Quaker Meeting

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    13 Visit to a Bettering House

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    14 The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane

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    15 Benjamin Franklin

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    16 An Invention for Navigating Against the Current–Thoughts on the Character of Americans and Englishmen

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    17 The Agricultural Society and the Library

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    18 The Market in Philadelphia and the Price of Foodstuffs

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    19 The General Assembly of Pennsylvania and a Description of Farm Owned by a Frenchman

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    20 A Journey by Two Frenchmen to the Ohio

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    21 The School for Negroes in Philadelphia–American Authors Who Have Written in Defense of Negroes

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    22 Efforts to Abolish the Slave Trade in the United States

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    23 The Laws for the Emancipation of Slaves Enacted by the Various States

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    24 The General Conditon of Negroes in the United States

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    25 Maple Sugar as a Substitute for Cane Sugar

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    26 A Plan to Transport American Negroes Back to Africa

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    27 Philadelphia

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    28 Farming Life and the Settlement of the Frontier in Pennsylvania

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    29 Climate and Disease in Pennsylvania

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    30 Common Diseases in the United States

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    31 Life Expectancy in the United States

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    32 The Philadelphia Prison

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    33 Quakers and Their Customs

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    34 Attacks Upon Quakers by Various Writers

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    35 The Growth of the Society of Friends–Their Religious Principles and System of Discipline

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    36 Quaker Political Principles

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    37 Journey to Mount Vernon

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    38 Observations on Maryland and Virginia

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    39 Virginia Tobacco and Tobacco Notes

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    40 The Shenandoah Valley

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    41 Journey from Boston to Portsmouth

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    42 The American Debt

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    43 American Imports

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    44 American Exports

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    45 The East Indies Trade–American Foreign Trade in General

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    46 The New Empire of the West

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    INDEX

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    Backmatter

    451
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February 5, 1964
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9780674731493
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Reprint 2013
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28
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447
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