TRAVELS IN AMERICA.

"There is a people who will one day be very great:-I mean the Ameri cans. 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.

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.

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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.