Brief Description:
An Englishwoman's engaging and often outspoken account of her travels in nineteenth-century America.

Table of Contents:
1. Entrance of the Mississippi; 2. New Orleans; 3. Company on board the steam-boat; 4. Departure from Memphis; 5. Cincinnati; 6. Servants; 7. Market; 8. Absence of public and private amusements; 9. Schools; 10. Removal to the country; 11. Religion; 12. Peasantry, compared to that of England; 13. Theatre; 14. American spring; 15. Camp-meeting; 16. Danger of rural excursions; 17. Departure from Cincinnati; 18. Departure for the mountains in a stage; 19. Baltimore; 20. Voyage to Washington; 21. Stonington; 22. Small landed proprietors; 23. Fruits and flowers of Maryland and Virginia; 24. Journey to Philadelphia; 25. Washington Square; 26. Quakers; 27. Return to Stonington; 28. American cooking; 29. Literature; 30. Journey to New York; 31. Reception of Captain Basil Hall's book; 32. Journey to Niagara; 33. Niagara; 34. Return to New York.