CONTENTS 



OF 



THE FIRST VOLUME. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



Voyage from Liverpool to Halifax. Gale. Iceberg. Drift Ice and Gulf 

 Stream. Coast of Newfoundland. Engine room of Steamer. Con 

 versations on Coolies in the West Indies. Halifax. News of Judge 

 Story s Death. Boston. Success of the Mail Steam Packets. Cus 

 tom House Officers 13 



CHAPTER II. 



Boston. Horticultural Show in Faneuil Hall. Review of Militia. 

 Peace Association. Excursion to the White Mountains. Railway 

 Traveling. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Geology, Fossils in Drift. 

 Submarine forest. Wild Plants : Asters, Solidagos, Poison Ivy. 

 Swallows. Glacial Grooves. Rocks transported by Antarctic Ice. 

 Body of a Whale discovered by an American Trader in an Iceberg . 27 



CHAPTER III. 



Portland in Maine. Kenriebec River. Timber Trade. Fossil Shells at 

 Gardiner. Augusta the Capital of Maine. Legal Profession: Advo 

 cates and Attorneys. Equality of Sects. Religious Toleration. Cal- 

 viuiscic Theology. Day of Doom ....... 41 



