8 TRAVELS IN THE CONFEDERATION 



privileges universally allowed ; moreover I am confi- 

 dent that I have not said many things, have left the 

 reader to form his own judgments, where citizens of 

 the United States themselves would freely and without 

 hesitation have given their opinions. 



Regarding many things not touched upon by me, in- 

 formation may be had from Professor Kalm's report of 

 his travels, whose relations I have everywhere found to 

 be true and exact, so far as I have examined the same 

 territory. The travels of this learned and diligent ob- 

 server (as much of them as have been published) hav- 

 ing been from Philadelphia and New York towards the 

 North, and mine being from thence towards the West 

 and the South, the two may be placed together in that 

 respect only giving as they do a continuous survey 

 of the state of the eastern half of North America, with 

 the exception of the New England and Nova Scotian 

 provinces. 



The reckoning in miles is the English throughout, 

 just as all the other measures and weights given, as 

 used in America, are the same as those customary in 

 England, and in consequence need no further expla- 

 nation. 



The money-reckoning in the United States is vari- 

 ous ; throughout, the pound is 20 shillings and the shill- 

 ing 12 pence, but these by the different currency stand- 

 ards are of different values, and the best comparison is 

 to be had from the value of Spanish dollars or piastres 

 and of English guineas. 



