G.

Genesee River, prodigious water-power of, ii., 196. Great descent of its bed, 197. Beauty
and fertility of its banks, ib. Its splendid waterfalls, 198.

George, Lake, description of, ii., 266.

Georgetown, continuous with Washington, i., 240. Its population, 241.

Germans, numerous in Pennsylvania, i., 326. They exclusively speak German, ib.
Girard, Stephen, his humble origin, i., 336. His enormous wealth, ib. His munificent
endowment of Girard College, ib.

Girard College, description of that splendid building, i., 337. Its very rich endowment,
Its object the education of indigent orphans, ib. One of the most beautiful of
ancient or modern buildings, 339.

336.

Grain, largely imported into the United States from the Baltic, i., 53. In 1837, 800,000
bushels of wheat and 140,000 bushels of rye imported into Baltimore alone, 114.
Granitic mountains, rapid disintegration of, ii., 280. Their debris sometimes overwhelm
the adjacent parts, ib.

Greig, Mr., his splendid and elegant mansion and establishment near Canandaigua, ii.,

231.

Gutzlaff, Mr., beneficial effects of his medical skill on his missionary labours, i., 412.

H

Harrisburg, the legislative capital of Pennsylvania, i., 326. Its population, ib.
Harvard College, account of, ii., 343. Its high character, 345.

Horses, singular instance of their docility, i., 468. In general, remarkable for their do-
cility in the United States, ii., 276.

Hudson, City of, on the Hudson, i., 476.

River, its singularly steep and bold shores, i., 460. Its beautiful and picturesque
scenery, 462, 463.

-, Henry, discovers the River Hudson, ii., 9.

Iceboat, description of, i., 175.

Illinois, State of, its population, ii., 165.

I.

Incendiary conflagrations of frequent occurrence in the United States, i., 117.
Independence, War of, its cominencement, ii., 317. Declaration of, when made, ib.
Declaration of, the original of the, i, 209. Drawn up by Jefferson, and signed at
Philadelphia, 324. Anniversary of, splendour and enthusiasm with which it is cele-
brated, ii., 47. Remarkable absence of intemperance on the occasion, 49.
Indiana, State of, its population, ii., 165.

Indians, aboriginal of America, descent from, a cause of pride, i., 71. Their names gen-
erally significative, 73, 74. Their astonishing skill and power with the bow and ar-
row, mode of destroying buffaloes, 74, 75. Admirabie equestrians, 75. Their dances,
76. Their fondness for the flesh of dogs, 77. Their excruciating self-torture, ib.
Their wizard or medicine man, 78. Their resemblance in many points to the Hindus,
ib. Visit of their chiefs to New-York, and interview of the author with them, 79–82.
Oppressed by the white men, 82. Affecting instance of this oppression, 83. Eloquent
account by an Indian chief of the arrival and encroachment of the white men in Amer-
ica, 85. Singular account of their monetary transactions with the government of the
United States, 86. Hypothesis of their descent from the lost tribes of Israel, 87.
Advocated by Major Noah, a Jew, ib. Alleged points of resemblance between them
and the Jews, 87-93. Little susceptible of civilization, 253. Their expiatory sacri-
fices, ii., 192. Extraordinary names of individuals among them, 223. The prevailing
races among them of Tartar type, 224. Rapid course of extinction among them by
exterminating wars and disease, 226. Description of one of their councils, 177.
Backward to embrace Christianity, ib. Their atrocities at the instigation of the Brit-
ish during the Revolutionary war, 181. Happy and inoffensive in time of peace, 182.
Miserable victims of intemperance, 183. Frightful description of the exterminating
effects of the smallpox on them, 226. Extermination of some of their tribes by a pe-
culiar pestilence, ib. Their intercourse with the white race alleged to be invariably
productive of injurious effects to them, 227. Bible in the language of the Narragan-
sett tribe, 453. Indians employed as magistrates by the New-England settlers, 472.
Amusing specimen of their warrants, ib.

Insects, account of, singular, ii., 217, 218.

Insolvency in the United States caused by profusion, ambition, extravagant speculation,
and hastened by the financial measures of the government, and the great fire at New-
York, i., 52, 120, 122.

Intemperance, a fruitful source of crime, i., 274, 275, 417; ii., 27, 28, 30. A principal
cause of female ruin, i., 407. Dreadful mortality resulting from it, ii, 93. Its dread.
fully fatal effects on the Indians, 183.

Irish emigrants, their bad character, i., 299.
Isolelas Gigas, description of, ii., 261.

Jackson, projected city of that name on the Potomac, opposite Washington, i., 247.
Reckless and unprincipled speculation connected with it, ib. Its site at present ten-
anted by innumerable frogs and alligators, ib.

Jefferson, Thomas, draws up the Declaration of Independence, i., 324.

Jews, their lost tribes, supposed by some to be the original stock of the Indians, i., 87.
Judges in New-York appointed by the Legislature, i., 128. Have a high character, ib.
Have very moderate salaries, 130.

K.

Kill, meaning of the term, and reason of its frequent occurrence in American names, i.,

467.

King's Chapel in Boston, Massachusetts, its foundation, ii., 406. Its organ chosen by
Handel, 408. Its gifts of plate from the royal family, ib. Its fine and commanding in-
terior, 411.

Kosciusko, his tomb at West Point, i., 464. Joins the American army, ii., 317.

L.

Lafayette, his memory greatly reverenced by the Americans, i., 252. Joins the Ameri-
can army, ii., 317.

Lakes, great, progressive rise of the water in the great lakes during late years, ii., 186.
Their respective dimensions and depth, 171.

Lands frequently sold to pay the taxes on them, i., 245, 308.

Law and law courts in New-York, in a great measure parallel to those of England, i.,
127, 128. Supreme Court of Appeal at Washington, 207.

Lawyers, number of, in New-York, i., 128. Combine the functions of barrister and at-
torney, ib. Receive liberal and sometimes enormous remuneration, 129. Their so-
cial and intellectual character of a high order, 130. Are subject to a rigid examina-
tion before allowed to practise, 129.

Lee, Ann, a leading zealot among the Shakers, ii., 64.

Lexington, engagement at, ii., 317.

Lieber, Dr. Francis, his speculations on crime and knowledge, ii., 25. On prison dis-
cipline and amendment of criminals, 240. Prefers the solitary system of confinement
to the silent, 242.

Lobbying, a term for cajoling or influencing members of the Legislature to support pecu-
liar measures, ii., 96.

Loco-focos, or ultra radicals, origin of the name, i., 50.

Long Island, description of it, i., 168.

Lovejoy, Rev. Elijah, persecuted for his advocacy of slave emancipation, and finally
murdered, i., 64. His murder in general noticed by the Americans either with slight
censure or approval, ib.

M.

M'Kim, Mr., representative of Maryland, i., 291. His admirable character, 294. His
public funeral, 292.

Madison, Mrs., widow of the president of that name, her advanced age, i., 236. Her in-
fluence at Washington, ib. Granted the privilege of franking by the Legislature, ib.
Maine, State of, excels all others in ship-building, ii., 373.

Mammoth, restored skeleton of, in the Philadelphia Museum, i., 356.

Manhattan, Island of, New-York built on it, i., 35.

Manufactures, their extent and value in Pennsylvania, i., 325. Statement of their amount
in the State of New-York, ii., 16.

Marble, that of Pennsylvania as fine as the Parian, i., 335.

Mariner's Home at Boston, house of entertainment on the temperance plan for sailors on
shore, ii., 362. Its excellent management, ib.

Maryland, State of, forms a state colonization society, and a colony for free negroes, i.,
285. Population of, 284. Its people generally favourable to the emancipation of
slaves, 285.

Masons, Free, their unpopularity at Boston, in consequence of their murdering one of
their society, ii., 337.

Massachusetts, State of, singular circumstance which caused its foundation, ii., 10.
Why so called, 318. Description and dimensions of its territory, ib. Its physical
characteristics, ib. Excellence of its agriculture, 319. Its mineral wealth, ib. Its
commerce and manufactures, ib. Its shipping, ib. Remarkable for its numerous and
excellent institutions for the encouragement of learning, 320. Statistics of education

in it, ib. Religious denominations, 321. Its Legislature, ib. Its fiscal system, 322.
Admirable correctness of the morals of the early inhabitants, 310. Its population, 323.
It does not permit slavery, 324. Slavery disallowed there in consequence of a judi-
cial decision, 324. Excels New-York in ship-building, 373.

Medical men, their number in New-York, i., 130. Their character high, ib. Their re-
muneration liberal, 131.

Mather, Rev. Cotton, his wonderful industry, ii., 308.

Michigan, State of, its population, ii., 165.

Militia, ridiculous inefficiency of, ii., 252.

Mississippi River, value of the agricultural products which descend down it annually,
ii., 165.

Montpelier, capital of Vermont, ii, 272. Its public buildings, ib. Its population, 273.
Mountain House, elevated establishment for the recovery of health, i., 469, 470. Its ele-
vation above the sea, 470. Splendid appearance of sunrise as seen from it, 472.
Museums, ludicrously rude in the provincial towns, ii., 254, 370. Exhibited for hire at
Boston, 371.

N.

Names, high-sounding ones usual among the Americans, i., 249, 309, 476; ii., 223. In-
stances of whimsical names of places, i., 248, 309. Inconvenience from several places
having the same name, 477. Familiar distinctive names of the various states, ií., 289.
Instances of absurdly high-flown baptismal names, 221.

Navigation, inland, its great extent and utility in the United States, ii., 202–207. Total
extent in the United States not less than 10,000 miles, 207.

Navy, that of the United States, enumeration of its force, ii., 375. Superior to any other
except the British, ib. Its organization, material and moral, greatly superior to that
of the British, 376. Its annual expense, ib.

Negroes and coloured people, offensive and unkind treatment of them in New-York, i.,
70, 71. Allowed the elective franchise in the State of Massachusetts, and make a
discreet use of it, ii, 393.

Newburgh, its population, i., 466.

New Bedford, town of, ii., 448. Its excellent style of building, 449. Its population, ib.
New-England, the states which it comprehends, ii., 271. Exceeding inquisitiveness of
its inhabitants, 276. Originally called Northern Virginia, 295. Abandoned after its
first settlement, 296. First permanent settlement there, ib. First settled by Puritans,
ib. The early settlers form themselves into a confederacy under this name, 303. Its
extent, 296.

New-Hampshire, description of, ii., 288. Familiarly styled the Granite State, 289. Its
population, ib. Its manufactures and commerce, ib. Its institutions for education, ib.
New-Jersey, its productiveness, especially in fruit, i., 456.

Newport, in Rhode Island, its population, ii, 420.

Newspapers in New-York, for the most part in the hands of the rich, and consequently
aristocratical, i., 54, 358. Ten newspapers of the Whig party in New-York, and two
of the Democrats, 54. Principal Democrat newspaper, the Evening Post, conducted
with great ability, ib. Loco-foco papers ill-conducted and ill-supported, 55. Numer-
ous in Baltimore, 295. Those of New-York in general below the proper standard of
excellence, 142. Religious newspapers in general well conducted, ib. Instances of
the whimsical style of the American newspapers, 297. Those of Philadelphia nearly
all Whig, i. e., Conservative, 358. Conducted there better than in New-York, ib. In
general, very viciously managed and very pernicious in the United States, ii., 46. In-
stance of their violence and prejudice, 392. Instances of their extraordinary exag-
geration and bombast, 391-393.

New-York, State of, its extent, ii., 12. Larger than England and Wales, ib. Styled
in America the Empire State, ib., 289. Progressive increase of its population, 13.
Present population, ib. Its population has increased one hundred fold in a century,
ib. Its canals, ib., 15. Its railroads, 15. Its numerous and productive manufactories,
16. Products of its agriculture, 17. High credit of its banks, ib. Their statistics,
ib. Its establishments for education, 18, 22. Its legislative constitution, 20. Pay-
ment of its functionaries, 20, 21. Judiciary constitution, 21.

-, great picturesque beauty of its harbour, and striking appearance of the
city as seen from it, i., 21. Its population 300,000, 23. About two centuries ago a
forest, in which a few savage Indians lurked, 32. The site first visited by Henry Hud-
son, in the service of the Dutch East India Company, in 1609, ib. The first settle-
ment there made in 1612, and called New-Amsterdam, 33. Taken by the British in
1664, ib. Retaken by the Dutch in 1672, ib. Restored to the British in 1674, ib.
Granted by Charles II. to his brother James, duke of York, and its name changed to
New-York, ib. First newspaper established there in 1725, ib. Meeting of delegates
there in 1765, on occasion of the Stamp Act, 34. Independence declared there July
8th, 1776, ib. Taken by the British army same year, ib. Population then 30,000, ib.
Evacuated by the British in 1783, ib. First American Congress met there in 1785, ib.
Exports in 1791, ib. In 1836, ib. Half a mile long in 1785, now above three miles
long, 35. Value of its property in 1786, in 1825, in 1836, ib. Shipping in 1786, ib.
Its admirable site on the Island of Manhattan, ib. Description of its site, 35-37.
Broadway three miles long, 37. Property to the value of twenty millions of dollars

destroyed by fire in 1835, ib. Astonishing instance of the rapid growth of the city, 40.
Its public buildings, 39-41. Its numerous and spacious hotels, 42. Dramatic exhibi-
tions greatly encouraged, though not by the more respectable classes, 43. The older
parts of the city generally built of wood, ib. The houses of the opulent convenient
and splendid, ib. The streets ill-lighted, paved, and cleansed, 44. Remarkable bustle
in the streets, 46. All men engaged in business, ib. Expensive dress both among
men and women, especially the latter, 46, 47. Thought and anxiety generally char-
acterize the physiognomy of men raised above the lower class, 46. Women in general
endowed with personal attractions, 47. For the most part exemplary in their moral,
and cultivated in their intellectual character, ib. General exemption from destitution,
49. Three great political parties, 50. The aristocratic party style themselves Whig,
ib. Their political principles similar to those of Tories in Britain, 51. The predomi-
nant party in the State and City of New-York, 52. Charitable institutions in New-
York, 93-95, 99, 101-103, 106, 107. Population excitable and fickle, 62. The city
greatly subject to conflagrations, supposed to be caused by incendiaries, 116. Gen-
eral indifference as to their occurrence, 117. Infested by highwaymen, 118. Courts
of law held in the City Hall, 127. Judges, 128. Lawyers, ib. Medical men, 130,
Religious denominations, 131. Number of places of worship, ib. Improvement in
the style of architecture in, 149. Customs of, 150-154. Great expense of house-rent,
159. Prevalent custom of residing in boarding-houses, ib. Weather agreeable and
fine, though rather cold during winter, 163, 164. Use of sleighs or sledges during
snow, 164. New-York the great emporium of the Western States, 166. Fine packets
from New-York to Havre, London, and Liverpool, ib. Its inhabitants characterized
by benevolence, 136. Schools of, 140. Colleges, 141. University, ib. Its periodi-
cals, 142. Great beauty of its marine scenery, 457.

0.

O'Connell, Daniel, unpopular in New-York, because he professes to be an abolitionist,
i., 69.

Ontario, Lake, its former surface 160 feet above its present, ii., 207.
Opium, immoderate use of, in the United States, ii., 28.

P.

Paintings, some progress made in, in the United States, i., 146. Noble historical paint-
ings by Mr. Cole, 147, 148. Paintings in the Capitol, 201, 202.

Palisadoes, lofty and precipitous rocks forming the shores of the River Hudson, i.,

460, 461.

Patch, Sam, killed by leaping down a fall on the Genesee River, ii., 198.

Penn, inconsistency of his conduct, i., 314. Receives a grant of the tract northwest of
Maryland, ib. His code, entitled "Frame of Government," 316. His arrival in Penn-
sylvania, 318. Purchases the territory of Pennsylvania from the Indians, ib. De-
prived of his authority by William III., 322. Reinstated, 323. Mortgages his grant
to the British crown for 12,000l., ib. His death, ib. His exhortations to encourage
education, ii., 22.

Pennsylvania Hospital, its admirable management, i, 396. Hall built in Philadelphia
by the abolitionists for agitating their opinions, burned by a mob, 371. Ship-of-war,
larger than in any European navy, 342. Carries 130 guns of the largest calibre, ib.
Its model singularly beautiful, ib.

"" its first charter of settlement, i., 312, 314. Government as established by
Penn, 316. Established by an act of the provincial Parliament, 318. Its territory
purchased by Penn from the Indians, ib. Its population 80,000 in 1695, 322. Its ex-
tent, 324. Its population in 1830, 325. Its woods, ib. Its inexhaustible mines of
coal and iron, 325, 360. Its extensive manufactures, 325. Its great prosperity, 326.
Deficient in means of education, 352.

Periodicals of New-York, their character, i., 142. Of Boston, ii., 346.

Philadelphia, site of, i., 320, 327. Its regular plan, 320. Resembles that of Babylon, ib.
Its foundation, ib. Its population in 1684, 321. Declaration of Independence signed
there, 324. The city characterized by general intelligence and morality, ib. Its pres-
ent population, ib. Its length five miles from north to south, 328. Accessible to
ships of 120 guns, ib. Beauty and regularity of its streets, 328, 329. They are gen-
erally named from forest trees, 330. Its public buildings: Statehouse, 331. In it the
first Congress sat, and the Declaration of Independence was signed, ib. Exchange,
333. United States Bank, its architectural beauty, 334. Girard Bank, 335. Phila-
delphia Bank, ib. University of Philadelphia, ib. Girard College, its architecture,
splendour, 336. Its very rich endowment by Stephen Girard, ib. One of the most
beautiful of ancient or modern buildings, 329. Abundant supply of water by the Fair-
mount Works on the Schuylkill, 341. Market-street above two miles long, 342.
Navy-yard, ib. Prisons, 343-350. Churches, 350, 351. Philadelphia Library, 356.
Philadelphia Museum, ib. This city inferior in a literary point of view to Boston and
New-York, 359. Greatly inferior to New-York in commerce, 360. Philosophical

Society, 352. Venerable relics which it possesses, 353. Probability of its great fu-
ture commercial prosperity, 360. Its municipal government, ib. Its population, 361.
The white race greatly superior in number, 362. Aristocratic feeling there, ib.
Abounds with philanthropic characters, 363. General prosperity of the population,
364. Inferior in manners to those of Baltimore, ib. High opinion which the inhabi-
tants entertain of themselves and of their city, 365. Destitution not unknown there,
ib. Spirit of philanthropy decaying there, 366, 367. Conflagration caused there by a
mob of anti-abolitionists, 372. Its inhabitants violently opposed to abolition, 375. Its
charitable institutions: School for the Indigent Blind, 381. Asylum for the Deaf and
Dumb, 386. New Almshouse, 391. Its admirable management, 393. Marine Hos-
pital, 394. Pennsylvania Hospital, its admirable management, 396. Seaman's Friend
Society, 404. Its objects, plan, and excellent effects, 405. Society for promoting the
Diffusion of Christian Knowledge, 410. Eastern Penitentiary, 417. This city the
most quiet, orderly, and moral in existence, 425. Eastern Penitentiary admirably
calculated for the punishment and reformation of criminals, 431. The climate of
Philadelphia_intensely cold in winter, ib. Extremely hot in summer, ib. Beautiful
cemetery at Laurel Hill, 433. Its commerce greatly checked, as the River Delaware
is so frozen as not to admit shipping during the winter months, 451.

Phipps, Sir William, his humble origin, ii., 307. Succeeds in raising a vast treasure
from a sunken Spanish ship, ib.

Pilgrim Fathers, the first settlers in New-England so called, ii., 460. Celebration of the
anniversary of their landing, 455. Ball on that occasion, 456. Good-breeding and
good-feeling exhibited on that occasion, 457. Their original compact or government,
463. Their sufferings and privations, 464, 468. Singular custom, commemorating
their privations, 468.

Pittsburgh, its advantageous site, i., 326. Its great and flourishing iron-works, ib. The
annual value of these, ib. Its population, ib.
Plymouth, in New-England, its foundation, ii., 463. Singular cause why its founders
did not settle on the Hudson River, where they first intended, ib. Its rude and sin-
gular laws, 469. Incorporated with Boston and other towns of New-England, 472.
Extraordinary progress made by the temperance societies there, 473. Its wonderful
exemption from crime in consequence, 474. Not one criminal in the jail, ib. Its
women singularly beautiful, 457.

Political parties, three, Whigs, Democrats, Loco-focos, i., 50. Whigs profess principles
similar to those of Tories in England, 51. Whigs advocate hereditary sovereignty,
ib. Violence of political parties during the election of Legislature for New-York, 56,
57. Characterized by extreme violence and unfairness, 123-125. Agrarians those
who advocate the retaining of public money under the safe custody of government,
124. Aristocratical party causes the riots which disgrace the United States, ii,
194.

Poughkeepsie, its population, i, 466. Its manufactures, ib.

Potomac River, Washington built on it, i., 197. Receives the River Anacosta, ib. Has
a navigable course of eighty miles, ib. Its breadth in one place a mile and a half, 240.
Crossed by a bridge a mile in length, ib.

Prescott, his excellent history of Ferdinand and Isabella, i., 145.

Press, public, often shockingly indecorous and profligate in the United States, i., 110-112.
Instance of the attacks of some of its unprincipled members on the author, 112.
President, Mr. Van Buren, his drawing-room attended by the author, i., 192. Simple
and unostentatious style of his residence and of its equipment, 193, 209. His personal
appearance, 193. Orderly character of his drawing-room, 194. Every citizen ad-
mitted to it, ib. Great simplicity of his manners, 195.

Preston, Colonel, senator for South Carolina, description of his oratory, i., 220.
Prisons admirably managed in the United States, especially in Philadelphia, i., 343, 350.
Generally produce reformation, 343. County prison of Philadelphia, its description,
343-345. Statistics of criminality in, 348, 350. Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia,
417. Admirably calculated for the punishment and amendment of offenders, 431.

at Auburn, in the State of New-York, ii., 234. Conducted on the silent system,
235. That of Massachusetts, 384. Conducted on the silent system, 385. Not one
prisoner in that of Plymouth, 474. That at Providence, Rhode Island, 433.
Providence, City of, capital of the State of Rhode Island, its site, ii., 421. Its excellent
haven, ib. Its public buildings little worthy of notice, 422. Its religious edifices, 423.
Its college, 424. Its schools, 431. Its numerous and thriving manufactures, 432. Its
shipping, 433. Its population, 434. Agreeable tone of society there, 435. Temperate
habits of its population, 441.

Prussia, its earnestness and activity on the subject of education and abatement of crime,
i., 420.

Puritans make their first settlement at New-Plymouth, in New-England, ii., 297. Ab-
surd severity of their laws, 297, 299, 302. Persecute the Anabaptists and Quakers,
303.

Putnam, Fort, impregnable to all attacks of the British troops, i., 464.