Mrs. 
IVright's Travels in the United States. 
601 
The current is very gentle; tliroughout 
this day, about two miles per hour in 
the great river, and one mile and a half 
per hour in the small one. Mosquitos 
are very troublesome, especially since 
we entered the Yonghong branch; 
they are the largest, and most ravenous 
of any I have ever met with. 
November 1. At seven A.>t. we arrived 
at the pier at Rangoon, and found an 
English snow, the Peggy, Captain 
Carey of Bengal. The shabunder 
Jhansey came on board with Mr. Dyer. 
After breakfast I landed, and went up 
to my house; in the course of the day 
most of my baggage was landed. And 
thus ends my expedition to Amarapoo- 
rah, on which I have been absent from 
Rangoon eleven months wanting four 
days. 
V JEWS 
OP 
SOCIETY AND MANNERS 
IN 
AMERICA; 
IN A 
Series of Letters from that Country to a 
Friend in England. 
During the Years 1818, 1819, and 1820 . 
BY FRANCES WRIGHT. 
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1'fhis is. the best, and perhaps the fairest ac¬ 
count that has appeared of the United 
States. Tile authoress thinks for herself, 
and in her views of society, abstracts in the 
spirit ot philosophy. She does'not contrast 
the artificial life of great cities with that 
passed in a wilderness—the misery of sel¬ 
fish contention with the rude enjoyments of 
nature—but friendly to the simplicity of 
country life, and to liberty in social life, 
she draws, ruder the influence of her well- 
founded partialities, an exhilarating picture 
of that country, which, to Europe, must be 
regarded as the land of promise and hope.] 
APPROACH TO NEW YORK. 
It was not without emotion that, on 
the evening of the H0th day from that 
on which we had cleared out of the 
Mersey, we heard the cry of “ Land,” 
and straining our eyes in the direction 
of the setting sun, saw the heights of 
Never-sink slowly rise from the waters 
opposing a black screen to the crimson 
glories of the evening sky. 
You wiil hut too well remember the 
striking position of New York to re¬ 
quire that I should describe it. The 
suagnificent bay, whose broad and silver 
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waters, sprinkled with islands, are so 
finely closed by the heights of the Nar¬ 
rows, which, jutting forward with a 
fine sweeping bendjgave a circular form 
to the immense basin which receives 
the waters of the Hudson—this magni¬ 
ficent bay is grand and beautiful as 
when you admired it some twenty 
years since; only that it is perhaps 
more thickly studded with silver-wing¬ 
ed vessels, from the light sharp-keeled 
boat through all the varieties of shape 
and size, to the proud three-masted 
ship, setting and lowering its sails to or 
from the thousand ports of distant Eu¬ 
rope, or yet more distant Asia. 
Every thing in the neighbourhood of 
this city exhibits the appearance of life 
and cheerfulness. The purity of the 
air, the brilliancy of the unspotted 
heavens, (lie crowd of moving vessels, 
shooting in various directions, up and 
down, and across the bay and the far- 
stretehiag Hudson, and the forest of 
masts crowded round the quays and 
wharfs at the entrance of the East Ri¬ 
ver. There is something in all this,— 
in the very air you breathe, and the fair 
and moving scene that you rest your 
eye upon, which exhilarates the spirits, 
and makes you in good-humour with 
life and your fellow-creatures. 
Approaching the city at sunset, I shall 
not soon forget the impression which its 
gay appearance made upon me. Passing 
slowly round its southern point, (form¬ 
ed by the confluence of the Hudson 
with what is called the East River, 
though it seems more properly an arm 
of the sea,) we admired at our leisure 
the striking panorama which encircled 
us. Immediately in our front the bat¬ 
tery, with its little fort and its public 
walks, diversified with trees impend¬ 
ing over tile water, numberless well- 
dressed figures gliding through the 
foliage, or standing to admire our near¬ 
ing vessel. In the back ground, the 
neatly-painted houses receding into 
distance ; the spiry tops of poplars peer¬ 
ing above the roofs, and marking the 
line of the streets/ The city, gradually 
enlarging from (he battery as from the 
apex of a triangle, the eye followed on 
one side the broad channel of the Hud¬ 
son, and the picturesque coast of Jer¬ 
sey, at first sprinkled with villages and 
little villas, whose white walls just 
glanced in the distance through thick 
beds of trees, and afterwards rising into 
abrupt precipices, now crowned with 
wood, and now jutting forward in hare 
walls of rock. To the right, the more 
winding waters of the East River, 
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