2 TRAVELS IN THE CONFEDERATION 



A Tour in the United States of America &c. By J. F. D. 

 Smyth, Esqu., London 1784. Vol. I. 400 pages. Vol. II. 

 455 pages, large 8. 



The author had taken up residence in America, and 

 both before the outbreaking of the war and during the 

 war travelled through the southern and middle prov- 

 inces, as well as the regions beyond the mountains ; 

 his accounts and descriptions, so far as I could judge 

 from a brief examination of the book, are good and 

 just, but too much interwoven with the particulars of 

 his own history, the persecutions and oppressions suf- 

 fered by him as a Loyalist, with other events having 

 reference to those times. 



Voyages de M. le Marquis de Chastellux dans 1'Amerique 

 Septentrionale, dans les annees 1780. 81. & 82. Paris 1786. 

 T. I. 390 pages & T. II. 362 pages, large 8; with several 

 maps and views. 



Of this work I have seen only an abridgment, under 

 the title : Voyage de Mr. le Chev. de Chastell. en 

 Amerique, which has appeared without indication as to 

 where printed, in 12 mo. 191 pages, with the date 1785. 

 The above title of the larger work I take from the 

 Getting. Anzcigen, art. 199, 1787, where several cir- 

 cumstances are remarked that do not help support the 

 credibility and exactness of observation of the Marquis. 

 Not to repeat the criticisms given there of the mang- 

 ling of German and English names, it is astonishing 

 how he seems to have been altogether careless even 

 with French names, calling the painter du Sumitiere, 

 (of whom I have also made mention, p. 85), Cimetiere. 



