CHAPTEK XXVII. 



New York. Its rapid growth. Built by Europe rather than by Ame 

 rica. Interesting physiological problem. Comparative growth of 

 New York, Glasgow, and Birmingham. Inferences as to native-born 

 energy. Utility of such comparisons. Modesty of the New York 

 journalists. American notions of American steamers and American 

 mechanics. Collins line. British workshops in American cities. 

 &quot; Bunkum &quot; of the Illustrated London News. Predicted downfall of 

 England by the rise of the United States. American Institute. 

 Exhibition of 1851. Mr Pell s orchard and experiments. Free- 

 school system in New York. Schools and colleges in the city. 

 Misery and ignorance notwithstanding. Practical difficulties of the 

 free-school system. Universities in the State of New York. They 

 report to the Board of Regents. The same Board inspects the 

 academies. Appendix to the Report of the Board of Regents. Hot 

 springs of Washitta. Blue berries on the Adirondac. Coal is 

 crystallised petroleum. Source of the saline impregnations of salt 

 springs. Stateu Island, its soil and its farmers. House-removing 

 waggon. Sunday travelling in New England. General stoppage of 

 railway trains and steamboats on the Sabbath-day. Boston. Lectures 

 at the Lowell Institute. Benefits to the rural community of this 

 State from a rotation of Legislative office. Revere house and public 

 hotels. Unsociableness at table. Prevalence of diseases of the 

 digestive organs in the United States. Its influence upon the tempe 

 rament. Causes of digestive derangements. Protestant Episcopal 

 churches. Changes in the English liturgy made by the American 

 Episcopal Church. Omission of the absolution of the sick, and the 

 Athanasian creed. Changes in the Articles. Churches in Boston. 

 Numbers of each sect in the city and in the State. Predominance of 

 the Congregationalists. Number of Unitarian congregations. 

 Change of the Puritan &quot; Forefather &quot; churches to Unitarianism. 

 This easily understood. Religious progression among ourselves ; 

 in the Congregational body and in the Church of England. Disci 

 pline of the Presbyterian churches. King s Chapel in Boston. Uni- 



