"There is a people who will one day be very great:-I mean the Americans. One stain only obscures the perfect splendour of reason which vivifies that country-slavery still subsists in the southern provinces ; but when the Congress shall have found a remedy for that evil, how shall we be able to refuse the most profound respect to the institutions of the United States?" MADAME DE STAËL. UTRA TRAVELS THROUGH PART OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN 1818 AND 1819. BY JOHN M. DUNCAN, A. B. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. GLASGOW: Printed at the University Press, FOR HURST, ROBINSON, & COMPANY, LONDON; OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH; AND WARDLAW & CUNNINGHAME, GLASGOW. 1823. Wb16244593 TO BENJAMIN SILLIMAN ESQUIRE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL HISTORY IN YALE COLLEGE &c. &c. &c. THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE AFFECTIONATELY AND VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. |