LETTERS

S.H. 1825

FROM

NORTH AMERICA,

WRITTEN

During a Tour

IN THE

UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

BY ADAM HODGSON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HURST, ROBINSON, & CO.

AND

A. CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH.

1824.

598.

TO

The Memory

OF

THE LATE HONBLE WILLIAM LOWNDES,

MEMBER OF CONGRESS FOR SOUTH CAROLINA,

THE

FOLLOWING VOLUMES

ARE

RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

HAVING been for some years extensively engaged in the American Trade, I visited the United States with commercial views, at the close of 1819, and remained sixteen months on the other side of the Atlantic.

In the course of that time, I travelled nearly 8000 miles, comprehending in my route, the States of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Upper and Lower Canada.

Being much interested with the objects which I saw, and the society with which I mingled,