X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



FROM NEW YOKK TO WASHINGTON. 



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New York to Philadelphia. Eed lands of New Jersey. Peach 

 orchards. Enemies and short life of the peach-tree. 

 Philadelphia, its attractions, hospitality, and public buildings. 

 Religious denominations. Salt-water terrapin. Fertilising 

 properties of the Green sand. Their supposed source. Dis 

 covery of phosphate of lime in large quantity. Geological 

 survey of Pennsylvania. Gei inau population. Common 

 schools compared with those of New York. State of agricul 

 ture and price of land. Free coloured population, their 

 increase, condition, and migrations. Soil on the Susque- 

 hannah. City of Baltimore. Free-schools. State agricultural 

 chemist. Transit trade of Baltimore. Canvass-backed duck. 

 Maryland hams and apple-toddy. Mulatto lands. Tertiary 

 green sands. To Washington, .... 299 



CHAPTER XXV. 



GENERAL RELATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN. 



City of Washington. Obstacles to its rapid growth. Mileage. 

 Mr Calhoun. President Taylor. Agricultural bureau. 

 Alleged wheat-exporting power of the United States. Exagge 

 rated estimates. Real surplus wheat. Quantity exported. 

 Influence of the United States upon Great Britain, social and 

 political. Real greatness, and great prospects of the States. 

 Assimilation of institutions. Dissolution of the Union, effects 

 and chances of. Dangers from the side of the Pacific. An 

 nexation of Canada and Cuba. Obstacles to, and consequences 

 of. Natural bias of talent and ambition in the colonies. 

 Advantages of a more close union with them. Why few rich 

 or noble emigrate. What a great and patriotic statesman 

 might accomplish, ...... 322 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



VIRGINIA AND SLAVERY. 



City of Alexandria. Natural advantages of Virginia. Comparative 

 position now, and at the Revolution. Effect of slavery on 

 its population, produce, and education. Slave-breeding, its 

 profit compared with that of tobacco and cotton. Free- 

 coloured people a source of anxiety. Colonisation Society a 

 failure. Republic of Liberia. Maryland in Africa. Mr Clay s 

 emancipation scheme. Laws against the free-coloured people. 

 Moral influence of the north. Prospects of slavery in North 



